Issue - meetings

By Councillor Burgess - Edinburgh Climate Commission First Report

“Council

1)         Welcomes the report “Forward, Faster, Together” published by the Edinburgh Climate Commission on 9 July 2020;

2)         Specifically welcomes;

            -          Affirmation that progressing to the 2030 Net Zero carbon target could create at least 16,000 jobs;

            -          Recognition that the City’s status as a global finance centre provides an opportunity for the finance sector, including pension investment, to support a sustainable future; and that this applies equally to Lothian Pension Fund;

            -          The principle that public stimulus to business and partner organisations should be conditional on actively contributing to a greener, more inclusive city;

            -          Endorsement of the 20-minute walking principle as core to placemaking;

3)         Agrees that to achieve the full potential of a Green Recovery for Edinburgh the Scottish Government needs to review policy, funding and enabling powers to ensure that the City council can deliver on zero-carbon ambitions, and therefore that the Council Leader will ask the Scottish Government how they intend to engage on these issues.”