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Our report reveals that despite costing more, the environmental benefits and impact on climate change of the Mayor’s environment spending remain unclear. The Committee found that less than a third of the total GLA group environment spend will be on combating climate change, and less than 4 percent will be spent on reducing waste.
The vast majority will be spent on other initiatives designed to ‘make London a greener and more pleasant city’ for which the environmental benefits are not very clear or are still being worked out.
The report makes a number of recommendations to increase the effectiveness of the GLA group’s work on environment:
- The GLA group should set targets, outcomes and budgets for all its environment programmes to make it easier to monitor how the group is progressing towards its long-term targets.
- Targets should be set for CO2 emission reductions by each functional body and progress should be monitored at regular intervals.
- Capacity of the LDA environment programme should be monitored and all group underspends should be explained.
- As part of the annual budget setting process starting from 2010/11 a GLA group environment spend document should be produced.
GLA group environment spend 2009/10
GLA group environment spend 2009/10
Mayor's Response:
Related documents
GLA group Environment spend 2009-10 report.pdf
Response to Section 60 Request re Environment Spend.pdf