Transcript Sustainability Partnership

Sustainability
Partnership
9 February 2012
AGENDA
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Apologies
Minutes of meeting of 2 November 2011
Matters arising
SOA review – now feeding into a new Community Plan
SCCD report
Presentation for Board
Suggested how to event for charities / SSDF proposal
Earth Hour 2012
Chair’s update – recent meetings and news items
Biodiversity survey
AOCB
Next meetings:
Diary for 2012 SP dates – 13 June am, 5 September am, 5
December am
4. SOA review – now feeding into a
new Community Plan
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Sustainability Partnership agreed focus on indicator development in
3 areas from our work last year:
◦ Climate Change
◦ Biodiversity
◦ Community Engagement (behaviour change)
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Development work on indicators still ongoing
New Board level aim of draft Community Plan to be
discussed at February Community Planning Board
Meetings with theme lead officers and third sector
undertaken so far
Opportunity now for all Sustainability Partnership
members to have their say
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5. SCCD report
5. SCCD report
2010/11
ENERGY
STREETLIGHTING
TRANSPORT
WASTE
TOTAL
Actual CO2
tonnes
20,339
4,587
4,185
19,769
48880
Previous years
progress (2009/10)
2010/11 CO2 savings
(2005/06 baseline)
2012/13
Target
savings
6.7%
8.8%
22.2%
-5.5%
-5.3%
12.4%
6.1%
14.3%
10%
9.1%
14.2%
25.7%
6.7%
10.4%
20.6%
6. Presentation for Board
South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership
Lunchtime Seminar
22nd February, 12.45 – 1.55pm, County Hall
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Part One
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Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration
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What does this mean?
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What commitments have partners signed up to?
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What information have we already gathered?
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Our Annual Report
Part Two
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Workshops
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Small Group Discussions - how can we more effectively work together to deliver
our Climate Change Declaration commitments?
7. Suggested how to event for charities /
SSDF proposal
The Scottish Sustainable Development Forum (SSDF) / Climate Challenge Fund Community Action Support Programme (CASP) are organising
three regional events leading from the Climate Challenge Fund Gathering in 2011.
Main objectives: to raise awareness about the Earth Summit, create realistic visions of individual communities and how to plan for it, to record
participant’s aspirations for the future of their community to feed into the Green Dreams initiative and to offer an opportunity for community
groups in the local area to network with one another.
These half-day events will be held in 3 different locations across Scotland and will contain the following:
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Case Studies – from a community group who have completed the visioning process and have come up with a sustainability plan for the
future of their community.
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Adaptation Scotland Workshop – Discovering the physical and environmental effects of climate change in your respective
communities
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Visioning Workshops – An opportunity for community groups to develop their own sustainability plan for their individual communities
with the support of Adaptation Scotland and SSDF
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Green Dreams Recording – Your opportunity to answer the question ‘What is your dream for a sustainable future in Scotland and the
World?’
Agenda
9.30 – 10am
Registration with tea and coffee
10-10.05am
Welcome
10.05-10.35am
Presentation from community group explaining their visioning process and how they created their sustainability plan
10.35-11am
Adaptation Scotland Workshop
11-11.15am
Break
11.15 – 12.30pm
Visioning workshop
12.30 – 1.30pm
Lunch and Green Dreams recording
8. Earth Hour 2012
◦ Posting on CoP events page, You tube clip
Earth Hour switch off list 2012
1. Floodlighting at Alloway Kirk
2. Floodlighting at St Nicholas Church Ruin in Prestwick
3. Floodlighting at Fish Cross sculpture, High Street, Ayr.
4. Floodlighting at Poet & Scholar sculpture, High Street, Ayr
5. Feature lighting in Loudoun Hall Courtyard
6. Floodlighting at Auld Brig, Ayr
7. Floodlighting of Burns Statue, Burns Statue Square, Ayr
8. Kirkoswald church ruin floodlighting, Kirkoswald
9. Floodlighting at Stumpy Tower, Girvan.
10. Dundonald Castle Floodlighting (in consultation with Historic Scotland)
11. Ayr, Newmarket Street feature lighting (in consultation with Ayr Renaissance)
12. Ayr Town Hall floodlighting
13. Maybole Town Hall floodlighting
14. Wallace Tower, Ayr, floodlighting
15. St John’s Tower, Ayr, floodlighting
Earth Hour – other actions
Communications – press releases,
website, intranet, communications
bulletins, emails to contacts (community
planning, business contacts etc), tweets,
email signatures (procurement suppliers),
street banners
 Schools model building competition
 Under development: event and additional
actions for green champions
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Earth Hour 2012 - resources
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Posters - these are now available to download at
http://scotland.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/earth_hour_201222/eart
h_hour_resources/
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Toolkits – available for local authorities , trade union branches,
businesses, iconic buildings and church congregations - if you would like
any of these to forward onto contacts in your area please do just let me
know
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Competition to find WWF's Earth Hour Champion
Community for 2012 . WWF UK is giving one community, be that a
school, workplace, street, village, pub or club, the chance to lead the UK
switch off and win a grant of £1000. This may be something you want
to send round your networks. For more information and details on
how to apply visit http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/get-involved/competitionto-lead-uk-switch-off Please note the deadline for entries is Feb 27th.
Your Earth Hour 2012 action
Take back to your organisation
 Seek their sign up
 log with WWF
 Let us know what your organisation will
do (we can publicise, include in reporting
and also let WWF know)
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...and don’t forget to sign up personally!
9. Chair’s update – recent meetings and
news items
•Biosphere
•Variable lighting
10. Biodiversity survey
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Ayrshire Biodiversity Update:
◦ Ayrshire Local Biodiversity Action Plan
◦ Central Scotland Green Network
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Please complete quick survey before you leave today:
◦ To help is with ongoing development of LBAP
◦ To inform our Service Planning work in relation to
biodiversity
11. AOCB
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Openspace strategy and associated environmental
report consultation reminder
Date of next meeting
Diary for 2012 SP dates –
 13 June am
 5 September am
 5 December am