Carbon neutrality Edinburgh 2030 — What carbon neutrality means and how we get there!  

Edinburgh Association of Community Councils (EACC) Special Meeting

Our speakers will be:

Dr Sam Gardner, Chair Edinburgh Climate Commission and Head of Climate Change & Sustainability at Scottish Power, on Turning climate ambition to action

Øystein Leonardsen, Senior Advisor to the City of Copenhagen, Lecturer at Roskilde University. Manager of Copenhagen’s Green and Just Transition Program, on Copenhagen carbon neutrality 2025

Paula McLeay, Policy and Insight Senior Manager, City of Edinburgh Council, on Edinburgh: a net zero city by 2030

Professor Sandy Halliday, Director of the Gaia Group, Chartered Engineer and author of Sustainable Construction (2018), on Carbon neutrality for the built environment

Special guest: Karine Hertzberg, Special Adviser on International Climate Cooperation, Department for Environment and Transport, City of Oslo

This meeting is open to the public, but priority will be given to questions from community councillors.

It will be recorded and may be published later. Please note that by joining the meeting you are giving your consent for the meeting to be recorded.

Register to attend this meeting HERE

Message from the Local Governance Review Team

We are getting in touch to update you on latest developments from the Local Governance Review in light of today’s joint statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government and the COSLA President highlighting the importance of new arrangements for local decision-making as a means of building back better after the coronavirus pandemic.

Today we have published the discussion paper which would have provided the basis for the second phase of discussion on future scenarios for community decision-making had the pandemic not prevented this. This is also available in easyread, and we’ll be adding a Gaelic copy to our website shortly too!

We have also published our International Review of Systems of Governance and How Citizen’s Participate. This Review represents a valuable resource for future learning and reflection on how to create a coherent and mutually supportive system here in Scotland. A summary of the report is also available. 

If you would like to be kept informed about the next steps in the Review process we would encourage you to sign up to our newsletter(if you haven’t already) and follow us on Twitter @CommEmpower – our policy page is also kept up to date:www.gov.scot/democracymatters

We would appreciate your help ensuring that the joint statement and our publications reach the right people.Our bulletin packages things up nicely so maybe you could pull from that or signpost out to that (our bulletin) 

Kind regards, and please stay in touch.

The Local Governance Review Team

Websites and Mobile Applications Accessibility Regulations

The Cabinet Office Government Digital Services have issued notification that Scottish Community Councils are subject to The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018 under the definition of “bodies governed by public law” and “public sector body”.

It is appreciated that Community Councils will not have been aware of this categorisation and the consequences arising from it. However, the Cabinet Office recognises that many small organisations will not have the capacity to comply with the legislation in the same manner as large scale public bodies, but they do expect you to comply with the requirements. Below are the 3 stages that Community Councils will need to carry out.

Read more: Websites and Mobile Applications Accessibility Regulations