Graham Lambert, a Green Party member for 30 years,celebrates election success with parter Jacki.
In 2019 Green Party Councillors Jon Orrell and Graham Lambert successfully promoted a Climate and Ecological Emergency motion.
This is now one of the key objectives of Weymouth Town Council.
The strategy to deal with this Emergency has been to commision a Carbon Footprint Report on all council activities and to set up a “Green & Clean” Working Party to develop proposals in response to the climate emergency.
The report from the Carbon Trust has now been published and contained a shock!
Half of Weymouth Town Council carbon emissions come from dealing with the waste, either left or put in litter and recycling bins, by Weymouth’s visitors to the beach!
This is going to be very difficult to deal with in our quest for net-zero by 2030, to say the least. We have already established partnerships with litter groups and Dorset Waste and Dorset Council to try to work on this.
The full report (pdf) can be downloaded here.
We have also initiated a review into how the Parks & Open Spaces sector of the council can adjust working practices in order to take into account the climate emergency..
This includes a programme to move the flower nursery – thus saving money on rent – whilst removing the need for the biomass boiler and so saving 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year!
