Climate Change and the Green Charter

As I said yesterday, I am doing a few posts over what has been achieved over the past four years.  In terms of climate change, Brent has built one of the greenest buildings in Europe in Brent Civic Centre, further improved environmental performance at other buildings such as Willesden Cultural Centre and Kilburn Library,  improved planning guidelines in terms of environmental performance, reduced greenhouse gas emissions from waste management, plans for district heating in Wembley and Kilburn and introduced emissions based parking permits. We have also encouraged the take up of car clubs.  Although I found it disappointing in some ways, the Climate Change Steering Group succeeded in having worthwhile events geared at raising awareness of business and of schools. There has not been as much progress as one might hope, but there was a noticeable improvement on the previous quadrennial. 

The other key change in Green Charter terms from the previous Lib Dem / Tory administration was the achieving and renewal of the Fairtrade status.