Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Place, Environment and Climate Action

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/077

Contact: Ariane Crampton, Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Manager

Ariane.crampton@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Environment and Place (CA11)

This report is a six-monthly update to cabinet on the delivery of the 2024/25 Climate Action Programme workstreams, including the development of a new Circular Economy Plan.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Adopt the Circular Economy Plan (Annex 1).

b)    Note the climate outcomes dashboard (Annex 2).

c)    Note the update on the delivery of the Climate Action Programme 2024/25 and approve the proposed Climate Action Programme for 2025/26 (Annex 3).  

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report which provided a six-monthly update on the delivery of the 2024/25 Climate Action Programme workstreams, including the development of a new Circular Economy Plan.

The Circular Economy Plan (Annex 1) expanded the council’s approach to climate action by focussing additionally on the resources it used. The plan built on work which the council was already undertaking, such as the Carbon Management Plan, and sought to deliver a culture change which embedded circular economy at the heart of the Council’s policy and practice.

Councillor Judy Roberts, Cabinet Member for Place, Environment and Climate Action, presented the report. She referred, in particular, to progress on carbon reduction, primary school home upgrade projects, and improved performance against climate targets. The Council had commended for being rated the best county for climate action by Climate Action UK.

Councillor Roberts moved and Councillor Higgins seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:

a)    adopt the Circular Economy Plan (Annex 1).

b)    note the climate outcomes dashboard (Annex 2).

c)    note the update on the delivery of the Climate Action Programme 2024/25 and approve the proposed Climate Action Programme for 2025/26 (Annex 3).