[ Cork City Council - Annual Report 2020 ]
CE Ann Doherty, Lord Mayor Cllr John Sheehan, Fergus Gleeson, Senior Engineer Cork City Council, David Joyce, Director of Operations Cork City Council and Cormac O’Sullivan, Senior Executive Engineer City Council at the launch of Cork City Councils new fleet of electric vehicles.
Climate Action Climate Action is a key issue for Cork City and Cork City Council is implementing a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy which was adopted in September 2019. These actions are integrated into the mainstream work of the City Council through a dedicated Climate Action Team. Cork City Council has a Climate Action Committee of elected members. Following from the adaptation the Cork City Council ‘Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2019-2024’, Cork City Council continued the implementation of the 66 adaptation actions in the strategy. The total combined percentage of actions ‘completed’ and ‘ongoing’ is approx. 75% at the national level and 89% at the local Cork City Council level. A series of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is being developed at a national level to compliment these annual progress reports, making them more robust in terms of verifiable outcomes and outputs.
Climate Action Committee
Cork City Council’s elected members established the Climate Action Committee when they began their current 5-year role in June 2019. The Climate Action Committee consists of 15 councillors from across the political spectrum (total number of councillors is 31) and was deemed necessary to help tackle the existential crisis which we are currently dealing with as a result of disruptive climate change. Indeed, one of the first items on the agenda of the new council back in June 2019 was to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. The committee is supported by the Executive of Cork City Council, steered by the Director of Services, Corporate Affairs, and International Relations. Since the Climate Action Committee was set up, it has proactively brought climate change and biodiversity issues into much sharper focus. It has encouraged the setting up of a complementary ‘Climate Action Team’ within Cork City Council’s executive staff, thus drawing together many of
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