Agenda

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 18 November 2021.

Members are invited to interview Professor Lubo Jankovic, Director of the University of Hertfordshire Zero Carbon Lab.

Professor Jankovic has provided some hyperlinks for Members to read and consider ahead of his in-person interview with the Committee as follows:

5.     Opportunities for financing sustainable development using complementary local currencies

Jankovic, L., 2 Sep 2019, In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 297, 1, 012023.

Conference article › peer-review

To receive and consider Members mind mapping ideas and quick wins following the session in November with the HEART (Hertfordshire Enabling and Adapting for Resilience Together) Community Group.

Members are invited to consider the notes from a COP26 Seminar on Cities, Regions & the Built Environment, 11 November 2021 – Enhancing Ambition on climate change in cities and regions hosted by the Carbon Trust, and to see what issues could be directly transferable for the Council.

To receive and consider the Scrutiny Officer’s notes of an LGiU (Local Government Information Unit) Post COP26 Webinar, 19 November 2021 and to see what issues could be directly transferable for the Council. 

To consider the mapping exercise document for the review which will pinpoint specific actions for the review such as evidence to be gathered and when interviews are to be undertaken. This is a working document that will be updated as the review progresses, detailing what has been achieved so far and showing any outstanding data or interviews still to be undertaken.

To consider any Part 1 business accepted by the Chair as urgent.

To consider the following motions –

1.  That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2.  That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent.