South Ayrshire Sustainability Forum Ensuring a sustainable future for South Ayrshire

1. South Ayrshire Sustainability Forum Ensuring a sustainable future for South Ayrshire Lorna Jarvie Sustainable Development Policy Officer Lorna.jarvie@south-ayrshire.gov.uk 01292 South Ayrshire Council M4, County Buildings

2. Background • Wide range of partners • Information sharing, presentations • Discussion and debate • Networking • Useful contacts made • Gathered wide range of activity for use in SOA • October 2009 – discussion of where to now...

3. What will our sustainable communitylook and feel like in the future?

4. What can an organisation realistically or best achieve? Total Carbon Footprint of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, January 2009, Centre for Sustainability Accounting • Balancing act – choosing interventions that give the best change result for the investment of resources. • Fulfilling roles that can be best achieved by the organisation– playing our part in the bigger jigsaw • Horizon scanning – grasping opportunities

5. New duty... A public body must, in exercising its functions, act: • in the way best calculated to contribute to delivery of the Act's emissions reduction targets; • in the way best calculated to deliver any statutory adaptation programme; and • in a way that it considers most sustainable.

6. Other requirements.... • CPP vision • SOA local outcomes • Own organisational values / visions • Legislative duties • Duty of care • Stakeholder needs

7. South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership Structure (2010) • What is our role in this jigsaw of components and influence? • What are the building blocks that contribute to the work of the sustainability forum?

8. The reality? What do we want the forum to achieve? Sustainable development An unsustainable future

9. Who can help us ensure this? Community Planning Board Members and their organisations • Councillor Bill McIntosh, Leader, South Ayrshire Council • Councillor John McDowell, South Ayrshire Council • Councillor Nan McFarlane, South Ayrshire Council • David Anderson, Chief Executive, South Ayrshire Council • Dr Wai-yin Hatton, Chief Executive, NHS Ayrshire & Arran • Bill Fitzpatrick, Divisional Commander, Strathclyde Police • Paul Tanzilli, Area Commander, Strathclyde Fire and Rescue • Pamela Millar, Director of HR, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport • Jim Reid, Director, Scottish Enterprise • Brian Cameron, Area Manager, Skills Development Scotland • Jess Dunabie, Development Manager, CVO Kyle & Carrick • Diane Rawlinson, Principle, Ayr College • Joe Lafferty, Community Representative, Kyle Area • David Kiltie, Community Representative, Carrick Area • Ross Johnston Scottish Natural Heritage • Andrew Jarvie, South Ayrshire Youth Forum • Robert MacKay, Jobcentre Plus • Martin Cheyne, Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry

10. transport Things we buy Biodiversity People Sustainable South Ayrshire Working together to coordinate activities and influences energy Communication water Health Knowledge Sense of place

11. Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration • Request board members sign up on behalf of their organisations and the partnership • Joint aims • Joint monitoring of outcomes as well as actions • Develop common areas • Invite representatives of additional organisations to be part of this

12. Next Steps • Discuss our options to • Widen the partnership • Identify our supporting groups • Be more specific about our remit • Champion the SCCD • Build on the strengths of our Forum • Are we a Partnership for the future? • Put our proposals to the Board

14. We acknowledge that • Climate change is occurring and human activities are having a significant and potentially dangerous influence. • Climate change will have far reaching effects on Scotland’s people and places, impacting on our economy, society and environment. • There are significant social, economic and environmental benefits in taking action to combat and prepare for climate change. • We all in Scotland have duties and responsibilities to take action to both mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to promote the sustainable development and well-being of our local communities • We welcome the • Scottish and UK Climate Change Programmes and targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. • Opportunity for local government in particular and other agencies, businesses, voluntary and community organisations and individuals to show leadership at a local level to respond to climate change. • Opportunity to address climate change by promoting the sustainable development of our local communities.

15. We are committed to: • Work with the Scottish Executive and UK Governement to contribute to the delivery of Scotland’s and the UK’s Climate Change Programmes, including to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to future climate change scenarios. • Produce and publicly declare a plan, with targets and time-scales, to achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from our own operations. This will include our energy use and sourcing, travel and transportation, waste production and disposal, estate management, procurement of goods and services, and improved staff awareness. • Ensure that greenhouse gas reductions and climate change adaptation measures are clearly incorporated into our new and existing strategies, plans and programmes, in line with sustainable development principles. • Assess the risks and opportunities for our services and our communities of predicted climate change scenarios and impacts, and take action to adapt accordingly and in line with sustainable development principles. • Encourage and work with others in our local community to take action to adapt to the impact of climate change, to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and to make public their commitment to action. • Publish and annual statement on the monitoring and progress of our climate change response, detailing targets set, actions taken, outcomes achieved and further actions required. • Collaborate with other organisations to promote good practice on climate change mitigation and adaptation. • We acknowledge the increasing impact that climate change will have on our community, Scotland and other countries during the 21st Century and commit to tackling the causes and effects of a changing climate within our local area.