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Representation ID: 16857

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Friends of the Earth

Agent: Gerald Kells

The Plan does not include a target for reaching net-zero carbon emissions.
This should be included in a Strategic Climate Change Policy which is one of
the strategic CSP policies and the location of all developments in the plan
should be tested against that target. We consider that while CC1 and the
subsequent policies on Climate Change are welcome in general terms the
urgent need to reduce emissions is relegated in the plan against other goals,
notably housing and economic targets. Unless climate change is central to the
plan, we do not believe it fulfils its role in assisting to meet the urgent
national and international need to reduce emissions so as to avoid
catastrophic climate change.