Support

Representation ID: 18499

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

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e) Climate change and protecting and enhancing the environment
Support: WTBBC welcome the BCP’s recognition of the need to address the challenge of mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. WTBBC also welcome recognition of the need to create a strategy for the enhancement and protection of the Black Country’s environment. Explicit reference should be made, however, to the natural environment.

This paragraph could be further strengthened through an explicit recognition of the wide range of benefits (ecosystem services) that the natural environment provides the Black Country, and the need to further understand and invest in green infrastructure to maximise benefits in mitigating and adapting to climate change.