Wow.... Thursday night was a long one - started at 6 with a brief Green group meeting then 6.30 a mock Council meeting so that the BBC can have a member of the public ask their question - finally Council got going at 7 and didn't get home until well after 10.30 - but some good news...Read about a successful green amendment that binds the Council to looking at ethical investment - something they've avoided for years - plus targets on the Environment Green paper are now being introduced - see our two press releases here.
And read our response to the Green paper here - I finally managed to pull together the report at the beginning of the week with Martin Whiteside, who is leading on this in the Green group - we've spoken to many experts and people to produce our draft - and yesterday I went to one of the first Scrutiny meetings to start working with the other parties on this. It is a real opportunity - meanwhile you can now view the Full Council meeting on webcast - see the Council in action here. And don't forget to see Martin Whiteside on the BBC Politics Show on Sunday talking more re the Environment paper.
2 comments:
Hi Philip
When I clicked on the link to the press releases it said I wasn't authorised to view the pages. Quite keen to see what was agreed re ethical investment, as it's smthg I've been plugging away at in Lewisham too.
Best wishes
Sue Luxton
Apologies I put a dodgy link in by mistake - link should now take you to news releases - although may need to reload page before viewing. We have further to go re ethical investment but this is a big step to get commitment to look at it. Next step is to provide more of the arguments about why this is the only way to go - any help gratefully received! I'm hoping to put something together over coming months.
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