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Meeting: 26/05/2022 - Council (Item 108)

Behaviour Change and Phasing Out Fossil Fuels (Minute 74 of 2 December 2021)

To receive and consider the recommendations of the Cabinet (Minute 103(c) as an amendment to the following Notice of Motion submitted previously to the Council by Councillor Hodgson and referred thereto in accordance with Standing Order 8(2), namely: 

 

Further to the outcomes of COP26, which failed to secure strong commitments to phase out fossil fuels, this council will seek to support behaviour change in residents and businesses in the County by implementing initiatives modelled on the Welsh Government’s One Planet Standard and associated Policies. This will include a commitment to switch funding from fossil fuel intense (e.g. new road building) projects to alternative (e.g. Active Travel) projects that will support low carbon, and healthier lifestyles.

 

Background information at this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDnAnpaGHs 

 

Having had regard to the aforementioned, any factual briefing/position statement on the matter set out in Report (CSO/21/01) and other suggestions or alternatives considered at that meeting the Cabinet subsequently resolved:

 

‘that Council be recommended to endorse the spirit of the Notice of Motion, continues to help residents and businesses reduce their environmental impact, and continues to take opportunities to invest in low-carbon infrastructure for the people of Devon’.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

The Motion in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED.

Minutes:

Pursuant to County Council Minute 74 of 2 December 2021 relating to the Notice of Motion set out below as previously submitted and formally moved and seconded by Councillor Hodgson that: 

                       

Further to the outcomes of COP26, which failed to secure strong commitments to phase out fossil fuels, this council will seek to support behaviour change in residents and businesses in the County by implementing initiatives modelled on the Welsh Government’s One Planet Standard and associated Policies. This will include a commitment to switch funding from fossil fuel intense (e.g. new road building) projects to alternative (e.g. Active Travel) projects that will support low carbon, and healthier lifestyles.

 

Background information at this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDnAnpaGHs 

 

and having had regard to the advice of the Cabinet set out in Minute 103(c) of 12 January 2022:

 

Councillor Hart MOVED and Councillor McInnes SECONDED that the Cabinet’s advice be accepted and that Council endorse the spirit of the Notice of Motion, continues to help residents and businesses reduce their environmental impact, and continues to take opportunities to invest in low-carbon infrastructure for the people of Devon.

                       

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED.

 

Councillor Hodgson then MOVED and Councillor Biederman SECONDED that the motion be amended as follows (words removed via strikethrough and additional words in red).

 

that Council endorse the spirit of the Notice of Motion, continues to help residents and businesses reduce their environmental impact and continues to take opportunities to invest in low-carbon infrastructure gives a commitment to switch funding from fossil fuel intense (e.g. new road building) projects to alternative low-carbon infrastructure projects (e.g. Active Travel schemes) as a front loaded phased programme over the next 3 years, for the people of Devon.

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hodgson was then put to the vote and declared LOST.

 

The Motion in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED.



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