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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 25, 2017

HEADED ITEM NO.16(c)

HEADED ITEM: C. Performance and Change Management Directorate

COVEANT OF MAYORS

REPLY:

SDCC first signed up to The Covenant of Mayors in 2012. This initiative has now been revised as the 'Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy', and includes both mitigation and adaptation to Climate Change.  If South Dublin County Council wish to continue as a participant, it must sign up again to this new Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. 

Heralded as the “world’s biggest urban climate and energy initiative” by Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy brings together local and regional authorities voluntarily committing to implementing the EU’s climate and energy objectives on their territory. This unique bottom-up movement, which started in 2008 with the support of the European Commission, counts over 6,600 signatories in 57 countries.

Signatory cities pledge action to support implementation of the EU 40% greenhouse gas-reduction target by 2030 and the adoption of a joint approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

Signatories endorse a shared vision for 2050: accelerating the decarbonisation of their territories, strengthening their capacity to adapt to unavoidable climate change impact, and allowing their citizens to access secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

The clear and increasingly imminent dangers posed by Climate Change places a duty of care onto The Council to act with the appropriate urgency and allocation of resources to join in the Pan-European effort in helping alleviate the effects of the greatest threat to public health and safety in recent history.

It is now before this Council to resolve that South Dublin County Council sign up to The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.