Cabinet Members - Support Services and Environment and Sustainability introduced a report by the Assistant Chief Executive which set out a new climate change strategy for Wirral.  The strategy set a framework for action over the next five years to reduce greenhouse pollution and to help ensure Wirral adapted to unavoidable changes in the climate.  The strategy had been developed via the Wirral Climate Change Group in accordance with a previous Council decision.  Cool – Wirral Climate Change Strategy 2014 – 2019, July 2014 was appended to the report.

RESOLVED: That

(1)  the strategy be endorsed by the Council as the agreed framework to encourage and co-ordinate local climate-related action in Wirral; and

(2)  the Cabinet be provided with an update on climate change and specifically its effect in relation to Wirral, on an annual basis.