Climate Action Partnership

For meeting on 1st October 2025.

1. Apologies and notification of substitutions.
2. Minutes of the meeting held on 8th July to be agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
3. WYCA Business Decarbonisation Plan.
4. Hawley Energy, Energy and Water Procurement Club.
5. Azo Limited, Sustainability in business and barriers.
6. Any Other Business.

For more details of this agenda, please email Owen Brear: owen.brear@calderdale.gov.uk.

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Calderdale Council

Councillors

Appointed by the leader of the Council:

• Councillor Scott Patient.
• Councillor Dot Foster.
• Councillor Helen Brundell.
• Councillor Stephanie Clarke.

Appointed by the leader of the opposition:

• Councillor Regan Dickenson.

Appointed by other opposition groups:

• Councillor Martin John Hey.
• Councillor Amanda Parsons-Hulse.

Other

Appointed by Calderdale Council's Chief Executive:

• Deborah Harkins (Director of Public Health/Lead Officer for Climate Change, email: deborah.harkins@calderdale.gov.uk).

Calderdale Youth Council

• Rep 1.
• Rep 2.
• Claire Whiteley (support worker, email: claire.whiteley@calderdale.gov.uk).

Business sector

• Natalie Denby (Just Gaia, email: natalie@justgaia.com).
• Alex Christoforou (Wendy's Fish and Chips, email: alchristof@hotmail.com).

Voluntary and community sector

• Andy Bray (Calder Rivers Trust, email: andy.bray@calderandcolneriverstrust.org).
• Cordelia Paterson (Huddersfield Diocese, email: cordeliap@btinternet.com).
• Pete Keal (Calderdale Trades Council, email: equity@petekeal.uk).
• Roisin Cavanagh (All One Collective, email: roisincavanagh@all1collective.org.uk).

Local NHS representative

Appointed by Calderdale Cares Partnership Board:

• Stuart Sugarman (Email: stuart.sugarman@cht.nhs.uk).

Local housing representative

Appointed by Calderdale Housing Consortium:

• Patrick Berry (Together Housing, email: patrick.berry@togethernetzero.co.uk).

Purpose

To provide overall oversight of the development and delivery of Calderdale's place based multi-agency Climate Action Plan, informed by the Calderdale Emissions Reduction pathway.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development, review and updating of Calderdale's Climate Action Plan setting out how Calderdale will achieve the goal of net zero by 2038 with significant progress by 2030.
• Oversee and enable the delivery of Calderdale's Climate Action Plan, addressing key challenges and identifying how to overcome barriers to progress.
• Monitor progress towards Calderdale's net zero goal and identify and agree additional action to be taken to ensure that progress remains on trajectory.
• Provide visible leadership to the climate change agenda, inspiring the public and partners to contribute to climate action.
• Support, challenge and scrutinise the contribution that each partner and wider sector is making to the delivery of the Climate Action Plan. To maximise the impact of that partners make to tackle climate change.
• Influence and lobby partners within and beyond Calderdale including West Yorkshire Combined Authority and central Government for investment, resource and policy support to reduction of greenhouse gases in Calderdale.
• Deliver and monitor actions from the Influencing domain of the Climate Action Plan which encompasses the strands of governance, influencing, leading by example, visibility and working cross-regionally.

Chair

• The partnership will be chaired by Calderdale Council Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Resilience.
• The Partnership will elect a deputy chair.

Membership

Seven Calderdale Council Councillors

Four appointed by the Leader of the Council.

• Voting: Yes.

One appointed by the Leader of the opposition.

• Voting: Yes.

Two appointed by other opposition groups.

• Voting: Yes.

One Calderdale Council other

Appointed by Calderdale Council's Chief Executive.

• Voting: No.

Two members of the Calderdale Youth Council

Appointed by Calderdale Youth Council.

• Voting: Yes.

Two business sector representatives

Appointed by Calderdale businesses.

• Voting: Yes.

Four voluntary and community sector representatives

Appointed by Calderdale local voluntary and community sector.

• Voting: Yes (two only). Voting rights will be in rotation of the four representatives.

The rotation will be in alphabetical order of the four representatives organisations name. Voting rights will rotate for each meeting regardless of if a vote has taken place. If a voting member on their rotation is not present during a vote:

• this will be transferred to the next alphabetical representative;
• and the cycle will continue as usual.

At the start of each year the voting rights will be assigned to meeting dates in order to monitor the rotation.

One local NHS representative

Appointed by Calderdale Cares Partnership Board.

• Voting: Yes.

One local housing representative

Appointed by Calderdale Housing Consortium.

• Voting: Yes.

Substitutes

Members of the partnership may nominate a named substitute to join the meetings in their place if they are unable to attend. Substitute attendees should be notified to the Partnership administrator prior to the meeting.

Reporting

• The Partnership will report to Calderdale Council on progress with the delivery of the Climate Action Plan, including through an annual Climate Action Report to Calderdale Cabinet.
• The Partnership's relationship with Calderdale Council will be advisory and any decisions requiring a budgetary commitment of the Council will be referred to Calderdale Council Cabinet for decision.
• Likewise, any decisions with budgetary implications for partner organisations will be referred to their own governance mechanisms. Foe example, governing bodies, boards of directors or boards of trustees.

Tenure

• Calderdale Council elected members will be nominated to serve as members of the partnership at the beginning of each municipal year.
• The tenure for other members of the partnership will be 2 years, with a maximum of 2 terms (4 years).

Meeting frequency

• Formal meetings of the partnership will take every three months.
• A programme of formal meetings will be scheduled at the beginning of each municipal year.
• In between the formal meetings, informal meetings of the partnership will take place, with the dates set out in advance. The task group meetings will be considered as informal meetings.
• Formal meetings will be webcast so to enable them to be viewed by the public.
• One face to face meeting will take place each year in a community venue to enable the public to attend in person. These annual face to face meetings will take place in venues across the borough.

Quoracy

The meeting will be quorate when at least three councillors and two other voting members are in attendance.

Task Groups

• In order to enable focused collaborative action to achieve the outcomes in the Climate Action Plan, task groups will be established for each Climate Action Plan theme. Their role will be to co-ordinate the themes of the Climate Action Plan.
• Task groups will report to and be directed by the Calderdale Climate Action Partnership. They are not intended to be decision making groups.
• The following task groups will be established:
  • Transport.
  • Green Economy/Sustainable Businesses.
  • Land and Nature.
  • Warm and Resilient Buildings.
  • Community Climate Action.
• Each task group will be chaired by a member of the Partnership and will have a Calderdale Council Officer in support.
• Task groups will include relevant partners with influence and expertise in the specific area.
• The Influencing domain of the Climate Action Plan will be led by the Climate Action Partnership. These roles are reflected in the responsibilities of the Climate Action Partnership above.

Agenda

• These will focus on development, delivery and review of Calderdale's Climate Action Plan.
• Members of the Partnership will be encouraged to put items on the agenda of formal and informal meetings.
• Formal meetings will include reports of progress with specific elements of the Climate Action Plan through reports from task groups, giving the opportunity for the Partnership to consider each element in detail at least once a year.

Review

• These terms of reference of Calderdale Climate Action Partnership will be reviewed by at the first meeting of the partnership and then annually.
• Annual reviews will consider frequency, membership, remit, voting rights, location/virtual and role of task groups.