North Yorkshire Council Archives - Action on Climate Emergency (ACE)

North Yorkshire CC launches climate consultation

Following our coverage of the announcement that North Yorkshire County Council was launching a public consultation on their draft Climate Change Strategy on 13 February, see: http://acesettleandarea.org/public-consultation-on-climate-change-strategy-to-be-launched-next-month/ the following announcement appeared on the Council’s web site see: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/north-yorkshire-council-climate-change-strategy-2023-2030. ACE will be responding to the consultation which closes on 7 April.

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Public consultation on climate change strategy to be launched next month

Barry White

North Yorkshire County Council’s Executive recently approved the North Yorkshire Council Climate Change Strategy Draft for public consultation, and will be inviting all ‘partners’, residents, communities and businesses (including ACE) across North Yorkshire to give their views by 7 April 2023.

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Council declares climate emergency years after its neighbours

Stuart Minting Craven Herald 7 July 2022.

After repeated challenges over the speed and scale of its carbon cutting actions, North Yorkshire County Council has made a U-turn to declare a climate change emergency, several years after Craven District Council. In a move which was notably not accompanied by the issuing of a press release, North Yorkshire County Council’s executive agreed the authority would be immediately adopting climate emergency, following in the footsteps of several hundred British councils.

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North Yorkshire County Council Election – Settle Candidates Quizzed on the Climate Emergency

Action on Climate Emergency (ACE) Settle and area has written to the three candidates standing in the Settle Penyghent division election on 5th May. ACE is seeking their views on what they would do about the climate emergency if elected for the final year of the county council and then as the representative for the first four years of the new single council – the new unitary authority North Yorkshire Council.

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