Responding to Climate Change: Gloucestershire County Council’s Corporate Climate Change Strategy & Action Plan 2008/09 to 2011/12 July 2008 Gloucestershire County Council Responding to Climate Change: Gloucestershire County Council’s Corporate Climate Change Strategy & Action Plan Prepared by Gloucestershire County Council and CAG Consultants Approved by Cabinet, 9th July 2008 CAG CONSULTANTS Gordon House 6 Lissenden Gardens London NW5 1LX Tel/fax 020 7482 8882
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[email protected] A Strategy & Action Plan for Responding to Climate Change Contents Contents 1 Foreword 5 Foreword by the Council 5 Response by the Council’s partners 6 Executive Summary: Responding to Climate Change 7 1. Gloucestershire and climate change 9 The ‘problem’ with climate change 9 The risks of climate change to Gloucestershire 9 Gloucestershire County Council’s impact on climate change 11 Financial and political pressures for change 13 A Gloucestershire approach 13 2. Gloucestershire County Council’s commitment to tackling climate change 15 Our vision 15 Our objectives 15 Our commitment 16 Our targets 17 Our future challenges 18 3. Our response to climate change 19 Our approach to leading action on climate change 19 Our priorities 20 Action plan 20 4. Monitoring and reporting 21 Performance indicators and targets 21 Monitoring 22 Reporting 22 5.