In April 2009, Glasgow’s Community Planning Partners have signed up to the Glasgow Climate Change Partnership.
The city’s Climate Change Partnership was one of the first formed in Britain – and the only such alliance in Scotland to commit its members to specific carbon reduction targets.
Its founding members – including Strathclyde Police, Glasgow Housing Association and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – have pledged to cut their combined CO2 emissions by more than 32,000 tonnes.
If successful, the benefit to the environment will be similar to an additional 160,000 mature trees or taking 1,620 cars off city streets.
Members of the city’s Community Planning Partnership were the first to sign up. However, it is hoped the partnership will expand into a unique cross-sector alliance; with city businesses and churches also committing to the carbon reduction cause.
Members benefit from support and expertise from within the partnership, along with the opportunity to share in any future funding secured by the group.
Signatories to Glasgow Climate Change Partnership recognise the significance of climate change and are committed to:
mitigating their impact on climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions taking steps to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of a changing climate working in partnership to respond to climate change.
The Agreement acknowledges that all Community Planning Partners play a key role in Glasgow’s response to the challenge of climate change, and publicly demonstrates their commitment to action.