Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

"Council resolves to:1. Declare an Ecological Emergency.2. Maximise co-benefits from addressing Climate and Ecological Emergencies.3. Add ecological implications alongside those for climate and sustainability in Committee and Council reports, and embed ecological initiatives within all council work areas, including COVID recovery projects and programmes.4. Work with local communities, county, regional and national partners to promote landscape and habitat protection, restoration, expansion and connectivity, while devolving greater responsibility to genuinely-empowered community groups.5. Work with stakeholders to provide everyone, and especially children, with opportunities for learning about and reconnecting with nature.6. Ensure the Ecological (and Climate) Emergencies are strategic priorities for land use planning, planning policies and design guides, and protecting areas for habitat restoration and biodiversity gain. Seek to incorporate biodiversity, nature recovery networks, green and blue infrastructure and ecosystems services into the Local Plan, Neighbourhood Plans and other initiatives.7. Create a register of natural assets and estimate the ecosystem services derived from those assets.8. Recommend to Cabinet that funding is provided to allow for the creation of an Ecological Emergency Strategy and action plan with progress on implementation being scrutinised by Communities, Environment and Partnerships committee and reported annually to Council."

— Full Council (Source)