Powering ahead on sustainability

摘要

There is a huge amount of interest across the community in environmental sustainability issues and that has been longstanding in Brighton and Hove. 1 think the council has gone through various ways of trying to look at how it addresses the issues of sustainable development and climate change in a way that works. It wants an approach that fulfils the obligations the UK national Government has been entering into, but does it in a way that it can make work with council finances. Each generation has been trying to find solutions which are not only good for the planet but are also financially sustainable. It is about councils wanting to do the right thing, but trying to make sure they can make it financially sustainable within the legislation and with the buy-in of the local community. One of our challenges recently has been that if we want to really decarbonise our city we want to try to harness the energy, enthusiasm and interest of our local community, but we also have to think about the way we work at scale. A significant part of this strategic work is being progressed through the Greater Brighton Economic Board - a partnership between representative local business organisations and local authorities that includes Brighton and Hove as instigator, alongside Adur DC and Worthing BC, Lewes DC, Mid-Sussex DC, Crawley BC, and Arun DC.