Environmental champions
Terms of Reference
The Environmental Champions Group has a key role in developing and embedding greater awareness within and on behalf of the Council in relation to the environmental impacts of Council policies and practises in general, and the effects of climate change in particular.
Within this context, the role of the group is as follows:
- To provide links to the transformation programme for the environment
- To provide bottom up support to green policies
- To provide the council’s face of sustainability/green conscience for implementing green policies and engaging colleagues in the process of positive change
- To provide commitment to making a difference in respective service areas – a beacon of good environmental practice across the council reinforcing green ethics.
- To provide input to the planning and roll out of campaigns in relation to, for example energy conservation, waste reduction and recycling, green travel, green procurement, green travel, biodiversity and composting, and water efficiency.
- To raise both the understanding of environmental champions and colleagues in their respective work areas of environmental sustainability issues and associated policies and plans.
- To provide a forum for ensuring mutual support to tackle issues relating to the remit of the group and the role of individual champions as and when they arise.
- To support specialists as necessary within the council in the development and communication of advice and information, for example in relation to the delivery of presentations, prepared by the specialist, which the champions take to relevant parts of the service to cascade key environmental messages throughout the council.
Chair
Meetings are chaired by the assistant director for neighbourhoods.
Frequency of Meetings
Every 4-6 weeks
Membership:
Membership is made up officers, at varying level within the council, from different directorates to inlcude Regeneration Delivery and Development, Neighbourhoods, Transformation, Social Care and Inclusion, Finance and Children Services.
This page was last updated on 29 July 2008