Sustainability and Climate Emergency Advisory Committee

THAT the Agenda dated September 1, 2021, be approved as amended.

THAT the minutes dated July 7, 2021, be adopted as presented.

WHEREAS on April 26, 2021 Council Meeting, Council approved a motion to work on having the shared Northumberland County Environmental Officer position continued; and WHEREAS the Sustainability and Climate Change Advisory Committee (SCCAC) has learned that the shared Northumberland County Environmental Officer Position ended as of August 31, 2021; and WHEREAS this position has supported Cobourg to address the climate emergency, including providing Cobourg with a Climate Action Plan; and WHEREAS a number of environmental initiatives within Cobourg’s Climate Action Plan (approved in principle by Council) and related to Cobourg’s Climate Emergency Declaration have been initiated for which the expertise of an environment expert is needed to assist existing Cobourg staff to implement; and WHEREAS the need to address the Climate Emergency is ever more urgent as is clear in the recently released ICCP report , and is evident from the large number of uncontrollable fires across the world, and the droughts and floods in Canada and in other parts of the world; and WHEREAS global heating is an emergency of a worse scale than the pandemic; with way more severe and long lasting consequences; and WHEREAS it is more cost effective to implement mitigation and adaptation measures proactively than to address the impacts after they have occurred; and WHEREAS Cobourg is beginning the process of preparing its 2022 Budget; NOW THEREFORE the SCCAC Recommends that Cobourg: Environmental Officer Positi

THAT the meeting be adjourned (3:57 PM)