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This Climate Change Strategy builds on environmental and sustainable development policies produced and tested by Warwickshire County Council. These highlight work carried out to mitigate both the causes and the consequences of climate change as a result of the Council delivering its services. However, Warwickshire’s Climate Change Strategy will add immeasurably to the work of the County Council if it is carried out as a partnership project. The Warwickshire Climate Change Partnership (membership shown in Annex 3) has a critical role to play in developing and refining the joint strategy and, over time, delivering on the action plans. The boxes in the text highlight existing good practice by two of the partners with a national reputation and many other examples are referred to more briefly in the strategy.
If we are to succeed in achieving reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 15%-18% by 2010 and 60% by 2050 (against 1990 levels), Warwickshire people will need to think carefully about their activities and re-prioritise their use of resources. The County Council’s partnership with Carbon Trust enabled it to think through these issues in relation to the impact of its own services and produce a Carbon Management Action Plan in 2004. This has acted as the basis for the development of this more ambitious Climate Change Strategy. The Partnership intends that it will become the basis of future fruitful collaboration with Government and regional partners as well as acting as a catalyst for local action.
It is intended that this Strategy will need to develop and be reviewed regularly to ensure the aims, objectives and targets continue to be challenging. The Partnership looks forward to reporting increased levels of performance, and more inspiring examples of people making a difference to climate change, in our first review. Because of the fast moving nature of the issues and changes in Government policy, this Strategy should be seen as a framework document which will be reviewed and updated regularly.
We intend to build on Warwickshire County Council’s proactive approach in developing a response to climate change, and will work in partnership with other organisations in the County to deliver our programmes of work. In this way we are committing to thinking globally and acting locally.
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