Issue - meetings

Caroline Toplis, Programme Manager – Climate Change introduced the report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting and provided an update on the work being undertaken by the Council to understand the climate change risks facing the Council and the services it provided, as well as to understand how the Council needed to adapt and build resilience to these risks.  The report was accompanied by a presentation.

The Derbyshire Climate Change Adaptation Plan developed in 2013 outlined the Council’s strategy to adapt to future climate change and build resilience within its service delivery.  There was a need to assess the impacts of climate change at both a local and global level which would intensify over the coming decades.  A collaborative approach would accelerate action in areas where cross-border working was needed to build county-wide and regional resilience, whilst allowing individual authorities to still hold and manage their own Council and service-level risk assessments and action plans.

RESOLVED to note the work being undertaken by the Council to understand the climate change risks facing the Council and the services it provided, as well as to understand how the Council needed to adapt and build resilience to these risks.