Sustainable Community Strategy - Coventry Partnership

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9g Some key strategies Coventry Sustainable Community Strategy Local Development Framework Coventry City Council Equality Strategy and Community Cohesion Strategies Coventry City Council Corporate Plan, Cabinet Members, Finance Procurement and Value for Money and Neighbourhoods and Community Safety Coventry Advice Services Strategy Children and Young Peopleʼs Plan Older Peopleʼs Strategy Cultural Strategy Challenging and Reducing Hate Crime Neighbourhood Planning 9h Some key local organisations and partnerships Coventry Partnership Theme Groups and Partnership Boards Public sector organisations responsible for the delivery of local services Local businesses including the local media and Chamber of Commerce Coventry City Council; Neighbourhood Management Service Registered Social Landlords Voluntary sector organisations including Voluntary Action Coventry, community organisations, faith groups and networks including Coventry Community Empowerment Network, Coventry Ethnic Minority Action Partnership and Coventry New Communities Forum. 9i Involvement of local organisations, communities, families and individuals People and communities can become more involved in the life of Coventry and their neighbourhood in a wide range of ways; by volunteering, becoming involved in influencing policy and service delivery, through taking part in public consultation, voting, attending local ward forums, becoming a local councillor, joining local community groups and the community networks, attending and getting involved in local events and festivals. 45
10. Making a positive environmental contribution and tackling climate change Improving Coventryʼs environment and tackling climate change 10.1 This is the second underpinning theme which aims to ensure that the Sustainable Community Strategy focuses on wider environmental sustainable issues across all themes and that Coventry is tackling climate change. 10.2 This theme focuses on the things that we need to do in Coventry to have a positive impact on Coventryʼs environment. It considers how we can reduce or mitigate the negative impact activity in the city is having on climate change and to ensure that the city is prepared for its possible impact. This theme aims to address the wider environmental issues that are not addressed earlier which focuses on ensuring that Coventryʼs streets, neighbourhoods and parks are clean and enjoyable places to be. Where are we now? 10.3 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Stern Review concluded that the need to take action now to limit climate change is imperative. Global impacts include global warming with reduction in the extent of polar ice caps, melting glaciers and warming of oceans. This is resulting in increasing rainfall and large-scale, long-term droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather including hurricanes and storms. 10.4 It is expected that climate change will cause more extreme weather conditions across Europe, including more very hot days, more intense downpours of rain and changes in storm patterns. A heatwave in 2003 resulted in an estimated 35,000 excess deaths across Europe. It is estimated that in the future there will be 2,800 heat related deaths in the UK each year. 10.5 Urban areas like Coventry will be particularly vulnerable. A lack of natural ventilation in buildings, insufficient green open space and blocks of tall buildings combine to exacerbate the heat island effect, which could clearly affect some areas of Coventry including the city centre and densely builtup neighbourhoods like Foleshill and Stoke. 10.6 Other climate change impacts on Coventry could include an increase in flooding and winter storm damage, pressure on drainage systems, habitat and species loss, summer water shortage and low stream flows, increased risk of subsidence in subsidence-prone areas, increasing thermal discomfort in buildings and health issues in summer. 10.7 Coventry City Council signed the Draft Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change in October 2006 and has published a Climate Change Strategy for Coventry. This sets out proposals for actions that will address the factors which cause climate change, and proposals for adaptations to deal with the consequences of climate change. The proposed actions being consulted upon aim to deliver the target to reduce carbon emissions in Coventry by 67% by 2050. One key vehicle for delivery will be through climate proofing of Coventry City Council policies and strategies, and those of partner organisations. 10.8 Generation of Coventryʼs greenhouse gas emissions for 2002-3 is split as follows: • Housing 42% • Transport 28% • Industry/commerce 25% • Local authority 3% • Other public sector 2% 10.9 Coventry is ahead of schedule to meet the Government target to save 30% of energy consumption in the domestic sector by 2011. 10.10 The proportion of waste sent for recycling and composting during 2006/07 was 24.21%. This exceeded our own full year target of 23.72% (and is ahead of Coventry's nationally set statutory performance standard of 20% for 2007/08). This is a significant improvement on the previous year's 18.10% (when Coventry's statutory performance standard was 18%) and reflects the major investment in new kerbside collection facilities across the city. Coventry sent just 6.25% of its domestic waste to landfill in 2006/07, showing a small improvement on the previous year's 7.3%. What things will we need to tackle? 10.11 The key action to be taken is to reduce the carbon-dioxide emissions of Coventry. We also need to improve the air quality of the city. We will need to raise public awareness about climate change and motivate Coventry people as individuals and within organisations to choose more sustainable behaviours to reduce their impact on climate change. 10.12 We will need to promote energy efficiency, reduction of energy use and the use of sustainable energy sources and the micro-generation of energy. We will need to make the cityʼs current housing stock more energy efficient and encourage people to use more sustainable forms of transport including walking and cycling. 10.13 We also need to reduce the amount of waste that is produced by Coventry and further increase the amount of waste that is re-used, recycled or composted. We will need to develop and implement a city and sub-regional sustainable waste strategy. 10.14 We will also need to plan to adapt Coventry to climate change. To do this we will need to better understand the likely impacts of climate change on Coventry, its infrastructure and people. 46
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