Transcript Ensuring a sustainable future for South Ayrshire

South Ayrshire
Sustainability Forum
Ensuring a sustainable future for South Ayrshire
Lorna Jarvie
Sustainable Development Policy Officer
[email protected]
01292
South Ayrshire Council
M4, County Buildings
Background
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Wide range of partners
Information sharing, presentations
Discussion and debate
Networking
Useful contacts made
Gathered wide range of activity for use in SOA
October 2009 – discussion of where to now...
What will our
sustainable community
look and feel like in the future?
What can an organisation realistically or
best achieve?
Total Carbon Footprint of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council,
January 2009, Centre for Sustainability Accounting
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Balancing act – choosing interventions that give the best change result for the
investment of resources.
Fulfilling roles that can be best achieved by the organisation– playing our part in
the bigger jigsaw
Horizon scanning – grasping opportunities
New duty...
A public body must, in exercising its
functions, act:
• in the way best calculated to contribute to
delivery of the Act's emissions reduction
targets;
• in the way best calculated to deliver any
statutory adaptation programme; and
• in a way that it considers most sustainable.
Other requirements....
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CPP vision
SOA local outcomes
Own organisational values / visions
Legislative duties
Duty of care
Stakeholder needs
South Ayrshire Community Planning
Partnership Structure (2010)
• What is our role in this jigsaw of components and influence?
• What are the building blocks that contribute to the work of
the sustainability forum?
Sustainable development
Economic growth
What do we want the
forum to achieve?
Economic growth
Social
progress
Environmental
stewardship
The reality?
Social
progress
Environmental
stewardship
An unsustainable future
Who can help us ensure this?
Community Planning Board Members and their organisations
• Councillor Bill McIntosh, Leader, South Ayrshire Council
• Councillor John McDowell, South Ayrshire Council
• Councillor Nan McFarlane, South Ayrshire Council
• David Anderson, Chief Executive, South Ayrshire Council
• Dr Wai-yin Hatton, Chief Executive, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
• Bill Fitzpatrick, Divisional Commander, Strathclyde Police
• Paul Tanzilli, Area Commander, Strathclyde Fire and Rescue
• Pamela Millar, Director of HR, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
• Jim Reid, Director, Scottish Enterprise
• Brian Cameron, Area Manager, Skills Development Scotland
• Jess Dunabie, Development Manager, CVO Kyle & Carrick
• Diane Rawlinson, Principle, Ayr College
• Joe Lafferty, Community Representative, Kyle Area
• David Kiltie, Community Representative, Carrick Area
• Ross Johnston Scottish Natural Heritage
• Andrew Jarvie, South Ayrshire Youth Forum
• Robert MacKay, Jobcentre Plus
• Martin Cheyne, Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry
transport
Things we buy
Biodiversity
Working
together to
Sustainable
coordinate
South Ayrshire
activities and
influences
energy
water
People
Communication
Health
Knowledge
Sense of place
Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration
• Request board members sign up on behalf of
their organisations and the partnership
• Joint aims
• Joint monitoring of outcomes as well as
actions
• Develop common areas
• Invite representatives of additional
organisations to be part of this
Next Steps
• Discuss our options to
– Widen the partnership
– Identify our supporting groups
– Be more specific about our remit
– Champion the SCCD
• Build on the strengths of our Forum
• Are we a Partnership for the future?
• Put our proposals to the Board
We acknowledge that
•Climate change is occurring and human activities are having a significant and potentially
dangerous influence.
•Climate change will have far reaching effects on Scotland’s people and places, impacting on our
economy, society and environment.
•There are significant social, economic and environmental benefits in taking action to combat and
prepare for climate change.
•We all in Scotland have duties and responsibilities to take action to both mitigate and adapt to
climate change, and to promote the sustainable development and well-being of our local
communities
We welcome the
•Scottish and UK Climate Change Programmes and targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions.
•Opportunity for local government in particular and other agencies, businesses, voluntary and
community organisations and individuals to show leadership at a local level to respond to climate
change.
•Opportunity to address climate change by promoting the sustainable development of our local
communities.
We are committed to:
•Work with the Scottish Executive and UK Governement to contribute to the delivery of Scotland’s and the UK’s
Climate Change Programmes, including to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to future climate
change scenarios.
•Produce and publicly declare a plan, with targets and time-scales, to achieve a significant reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions from our own operations. This will include our energy use and sourcing, travel and
transportation, waste production and disposal, estate management, procurement of goods and services, and
improved staff awareness.
•Ensure that greenhouse gas reductions and climate change adaptation measures are clearly incorporated into
our new and existing strategies, plans and programmes, in line with sustainable development principles.
•Assess the risks and opportunities for our services and our communities of predicted climate change scenarios
and impacts, and take action to adapt accordingly and in line with sustainable development principles.
•Encourage and work with others in our local community to take action to adapt to the impact of climate change, to
reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and to make public their commitment to action.
•Publish and annual statement on the monitoring and progress of our climate change response, detailing targets
set, actions taken, outcomes achieved and further actions required.
•Collaborate with other organisations to promote good practice on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
We acknowledge the increasing impact that climate change will have on our community, Scotland and
other countries during the 21st Century and commit to tackling the causes and effects of a changing
climate within our local area.