Swale Borough Council

Resolved:That the Council resolves:1. To declare a ‘Climate and Ecological Emergency’.2. To draw up an action plan with improvement in energy efficiency andmaking space for nature as key priorities in all strategies and plans.3. Pursue the Swale Strategic Air Quality Action Plan 2018-22 and toactively lobby all responsible authorities to improve air quality withinSwale.4. To provide leadership by taking all measures within our control tomake Swale Borough Council’s own operations carbon neutral by 2025,taking into account both production and consumption emissions(scope 1, 2 and 3).5. To engage with businesses, organisations and residents to facilitatethe action required to make the Borough of Swale carbon neutral by2030, taking into account both production and consumption emissions(scope 1, 2 and 3).6. To undertake actions including, but not be limited to, spatial andtransport planning to make fewer journeys necessary, improvement tothe energy efficiency of new and existing housing and buildings,improved public transport especially in rural areas; encouraging activetransport, developing the infrastructure for EVs; deploying renewableenergy at every opportunity, while continuing to safeguard our wildplaces, ancient woodlands and hedgerows.7. To call on Westminster to provide the powers and resources to makethe 2030 target possible.8. To call upon the MPs for Sittingbourne & Sheppey and for Faversham &Mid Kent to support this motion.9. To work with other governments (both within the UK andinternationally) to determine and implement best practice methods tolimit global warming to less than 1.5°C.10.To work with partners across the Borough to deliver these new goalsthrough all relevant strategies and plans.11.To become a ‘Plastic-Free Council’ by eliminating single-use plasticsfrom the Council’s operations, whenever possible, by 2021.12.To request the Cabinet, working through the Policy Development andReview Committee, to report the actions the Council will take toaddress this emergency to Full Council by the end of the 2019/20municipal year.Council 26 June 2019- 96 -13.In meeting this pledge, the Council will take steps to avoid any adverseimpacts on our most vulnerable residents.14.This Council pledges to produce in January of each year, between nowand 2030, an annual report detailing the council’s progress againstSwale’s carbon neutral action plan, enabling members, residents andother stakeholders to hold the council to account for the delivery ofthis pledge.

— Full Council (Source)