Download 10. Motions RTF

Subject: Motions
Report Number: 10
Date:
11 December 2002
Report to: Assembly
Report of: Head of Assembly Support
The following motion has been proposed in the name of Darren Johnson
Motion on Clean Energy
That this Assembly supports the domestic energy efficiency target set under the Home Energy
Conservation Act 1995 of a 30% improvement by 2011 based on 1996 levels; notes that a virtually
identical target has been suggested in recent reports by the Performance and Innovation Unit and
the Energy Saving Trust; stresses the importance of this target for reasons of reducing the
emissions of greenhouse gases; ending fuel poverty and ensuring the business certainty needed to
stimulate long-term investment by companies producing energy saving goods. The Assembly
therefore welcomes the consultation recently announced by the Treasury into ways in which
fiscal measures and policies can be used to stimulate domestic energy efficiency and so resolves to
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Support the Clean Dozen list of policies supported and being promoted by a number of
organisations including the Association for the Conservation of Energy, Friends of the
Earth, Greenpeace, Help the Aged, the RSPB and the British Energy Efficiency
Federation as well as Energy Efficiency Advice Centres and urges the Treasury to
support and implement those measures expeditiously.
Write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer informing him of the council’s support for
the Clean Dozen
Write to local MPs asking them to support the Clean Dozen and to write to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer informing him of that support
Let the HECA Partnership of NGOs know of this decision.
Proposed: Darren Johnson
Seconded: Jenny Jones
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