City of Edinburgh Council

"7) To agree to declare a Nature Emergency, akin to the Council’s declaration of a Climate Emergency in 2019, recognising the current state of nature, its inherent value and the crucial role its recovery and restoration would play in realising climate targets.8) To note other Councils across the UK have declared a Nature Emergency, and that the Senedd was one of the first parliaments in the world to take this step.9) To further request a report to Policy and Sustainability Committee within 2 cycles which:a) Explores the possibility of the Council signing up to the Berlin Urban Nature Pact as the next milestone from COP15 after the Edinburgh Declaration and Montreal Pledge.b) Outlines how existing Council strategies such as the Biodiversity Action Plan, forthcoming Edinburgh Adapts plan and 2030 Climate Strategy, aligned with the GBF, Scottish Biodiversity Strategy and Berlin UrbanNature Pact, and note any changes to existing strategies or additional resource required to deliver against these.c) Provides an update on the development of the Vision for Nature as outlined in the Biodiversity Action Plan, including specific consideration of how the Vision for Nature will:i) Adopt an ecological coherence approach to effectively identify and target actions required to tackle the nature emergency and deliver against the various strategies listed above, including through the further development of the region’s Nature Network;ii) Adopt a partnership approach, working with Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership project partners, including through the Edinburgh Living Landscape, to maximise opportunity for delivery of the strategies listed above, and taking learning from the partnership board model developed as part of the 2030 Climate Strategy work.10) To ask that detailed costs are provided for point 9 above in the report to the Policy and Sustainability Committee."

— Full Council (Source)