SE Plan + Climate Change
June 6th, 2005 at 11:34am Under The South East Plan
4.Climate Change
Issue
We welcome the inclusion of climate change as a cross cutting issue, however there is no adequate policy to follow this through. References to climate change are weak and do not adequately reflect the IRF commitments for mitigation. Climate change should be recognised as the single biggest threat to people and wildlife in the SE; there must be a clear policy commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Found this on the http://www.sefs.org.uk/ site.
They raise some very interesting points and have some good recommendations for the future. Especially this part!
2.Economic Growth
Issue
We support the stated commitment that economic development will be sustainable and the recognition that ‘more of the same’ is not acceptable. However it is clear that the goal of sustainable development is constantly being undermined by the pursuit of economic growth, regardless of social and environmental consequences. We therefore question the sustainability of the SE Plan adopting an annual growth rate of 3% GVA. The SE currently has a higher economic growth rate than any other region in the UK and it is widely recognised that this level of growth is pushing against – and in some instances exceeding – environmental capacity regionally and globally.
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