City of Glasgow

"Council resolves to declare a climate and ecological emergency and looks forward to receiving the report and recommendations of the Climate Emergency Working Group after the summer recess, recognises that these are likely to be radical and challenging for both the Council and the wider city, and commits to using these recommendations as the basis for delivering the decarbonisation of the city in response to this climate emergency here and is already having on vulnerable communities globally.Council resolves to identify additional revenue which demonstrates the Administration’s commitment to put in place a Climate Emergency Fund in the current financial year to ensure that action on the forthcoming Climate Emergency Working Group recommendations can begin immediately. Council resolves that subsequent to the recommendations of the Climate Emergency Working Group being submitted, a short-life process will be put in place to establish whether further recommendations are required to address the ecological emergency specifically.Council notes that, in the face of the Climate Emergency, the International Monetary Fund and the Governor of the Bank of England have updated their advice on the financial risks involved, and the OECD have issued a report on the finance and business implications of the Biodiversity Crisis and instructs the Executive Director of Finance to bring a report to Finance and Audit Scrutiny Committee detailing the Council’s response to this new context including in relation to divestment from fossil fuels."https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/councillorsandcommittees/viewSelectedPack.asp?c=P6J5FQ0G81T1Z381

— Full Council (Source)