Submission History: By Bailie Dr Bartos:- "This Council notes the approach of the COP26 conference and the need for everyone, globally and locally, to make a difference to the future of our planet. Council believes that one part of an adequate climate and ecological emergency response will be to change the approach we take by default to our environment around us and to preserve as far as possible nature's capacity for carbon sequestration. Council notes that it has some limited powers to prevent tree felling by tree preservations orders but also notes that for it to make a tree preservation order across the whole of Glasgow in advance of COP26 would currently require identifying every tree owner and sending them a registered mail letter. Council believes that for there to be an emergency response to the challenges we face, it is time for central government to devolve more powers to local government and therefore Council agrees to write to relevant ministers in the Scottish Government to open a dialogue about climate emergency powers across a range of sectors, including powers of general competence, so that Glasgow City Council may in future rapidly bring forward proposals - such as to allow protection and preservation of trees across our entire local authority - and so that we in Glasgow can take an ambitious, agile and creative approach to tackling the climate emergency." Help Icon

This is the history for the submission "By Bailie Dr Bartos:- "This Council notes the approach of the COP26 conference and the need for everyone, globally and locally, to make a difference to the future of our planet. Council believes that one part of an adequate climate and ecological emergency response will be to change the approach we take by default to our environment around us and to preserve as far as possible nature's capacity for carbon sequestration. Council notes that it has some limited powers to prevent tree felling by tree preservations orders but also notes that for it to make a tree preservation order across the whole of Glasgow in advance of COP26 would currently require identifying every tree owner and sending them a registered mail letter. Council believes that for there to be an emergency response to the challenges we face, it is time for central government to devolve more powers to local government and therefore Council agrees to write to relevant ministers in the Scottish Government to open a dialogue about climate emergency powers across a range of sectors, including powers of general competence, so that Glasgow City Council may in future rapidly bring forward proposals - such as to allow protection and preservation of trees across our entire local authority - and so that we in Glasgow can take an ambitious, agile and creative approach to tackling the climate emergency."".

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Glasgow City Council 28/10/2021 Click here