Disclosure Log
Disclosure Log Search
Use this part of the site for filtering the search results.
Use this part of the site to view the Authorities disclosure log Database.
Record Ref : EIR 2380
Date Received : 01/09/2025
Date Completed : 10/09/2025
Organisation : Private Individual
Application Type : Private Individual
Category : Climate Change and Pollution
Question
Climate Emergency Declaration & External Influence 1. Please identify the specific legislation or statutory provision that empowers the council to declare a “climate emergency.” 2. Please confirm whether the council held recorded local CO2 emissions data prior to declaring the emergency. If yes, provide the records; if no, confirm explicitly. 3. Please provide a list of all external bodies, organisations, companies, panels, consultants, stakeholder groups, advisory boards, or networks (whether formally contracted or informally engaged) that provided advice, lobbying, data, or policy templates on climate emergency declarations or related policies. 4. Please provide copies of all correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, or other recorded material supplied by these bodies. 5. Please identify any statutory consultation requirement that was met before declaring the climate emergency, and provide the consultation records.
Answer
1. Please identify the specific legislation or statutory provision that empowers the council to declare a “climate emergency”. Environment (Wales) Act 2016 Wellbeing of Future Generations Act 2015 2. Please confirm whether the council held recorded local CO2 emissions data prior to declaring the emergency. If yes, provide the records; if no, confirm explicitly. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council has not declared a climate emergency 3. Please provide a list of all external bodies, organisations, companies, panels, consultants, stakeholder groups, advisory boards, or networks (whether formally contracted or informally engaged) that provided advice, lobbying, data, or policy templates on climate emergency declarations or related policies. N/A 4. Please provide copies of all correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, or other recorded material supplied by these bodies. N/A 5. Please identify any statutory consultation requirement that was met before declaring the climate emergency, and provide the consultation records. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council have not declared a climate emergency.