Raising Environmental & Climate Change Achievement in Planning -- Cllr Wisdom Da Costa, 24 Jan 2023

Local Authority Planning Departments will play a vital role in the race to get to Net Zero in time, in protecting residents and businesses from every increasing extremes of weather, and in reversing the extinction of UK species.

Planning Consents that they grant can impact up to 80% of Green House Gas (GHG or C) emissions in an area; 100% of our ability to survive, thrive, and prosper in extreme weather; and have a huge impact on whether species become extinct locally, regionally and nationally given that we are part of a connected ecosystem.

The use of land and the nature of buildings are key to these three issues, these three existential threats facing our children.

The extremes of weather are already causing tens of thousands of excess deaths and this is set to get worse as the weather becomes more extreme.

We have a short window of opportunity to get this right as the homes and offices we build today will be occupied in by our children for up to 50 years to come.

And not just to protect humans but to also put in place regulations that prevent the mass extinctions we are facing.

Remember we rely on Biodiversity and ecosystems for food, and agriculture, biofuels, as a carbon storage mass, to reduce temperature, to absorb extreme rainfall and, to renew our senses and well-being.

Yet we are facing levels of extinction not seen since the end of the age of the dinosaurs and comet chixiclub.

If politicians in Local Authorities do not act quickly and with sufficient ambition we will be condemning our children to poor living conditions, low-grade and expensive work environments and schools, poor educational achievement, poor earnings, price increases, poverty, sickness, suffering, lower life expectancy and unnecessary death.

Death in the thousands and tens of thousands each year for the UK alone.

Do you want this on your conscience?

Speach is given by Cllr. Wisdom Da Costa to the Full Council in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead on 24 January 2023.

Full transcript at www.shorturl.at/buATU

In his speech, he also notes that the narrow application of Biodiversity Net Gain by Planners and Developers is an oxymoron that shows a catastrophic failure of understanding, and results in the wilful destruction of total Biodiversity.

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