FIRST ECO CHAMPION FOR CAMDEN COUNCIL

5 June 2006

A new Eco Champion will spearhead Camden Council’s efforts to reduce the detrimental effect our daily lives have on the planet, it was announced today (5 June 2006).

Cllr Alexis Rowell takes up the newly created cross-council position, reporting directly to Camden Council Leader Cllr Keith Moffitt.

More than ever before, the planet faces huge, pressing environmental concerns, from unsustainable consumption of precious natural resources to the threat of climate change. Camden Council is encouraging residents and businesses to take a more environmentally sustainable approach to their lifestyles. The appointment of the new Eco Champion will boost the council’s efforts to show people how to make little changes that can make a big difference in preserving the environment and quality of life for future generations.

Cllr Rowell says:

“As Camden Council’s Eco Champion I will focus on how we can protect and improve our local environment and in doing so lessen our detrimental impact on the planet. I will be helping to make sure that we as a council use every opportunity to ‘green’ our activities in delivering our services and to show residents and businesses the small steps we can take which together add up to a big difference.

“Our current lifestyle choices are unsustainable and we cannot continue living beyond our means and destroying our own life-support system for our children and grandchildren. Indeed if people in the developing world lived the lifestyle that we do in the UK, we would need three planet Earths to support us with the resources we consume and the pollution we churn out.”

The Eco Champion will lead a ‘Sustainability Taskforce’, a team of councillors from all parties, council officers and the local community to listen to ideas and work together to tackle these problems. The group will look into areas such as what we consume, what energy we produce and use up, how we get around and how we can reduce and dispose of our waste. It will focus on identifying ideas and putting in place practical measures for making life in Camden now more sustainable in the long-term. This will be through looking at the choices individuals and organisations in Camden can make at every level. For example from buying UK-grown apples from a local market rather than those flown in from New Zealand by a supermarket, to sourcing renewable electricity for buildings and vehicles.

The council’s announcement comes at the start of London Sustainability Weeks, which runs until 18 June 2006. For more information on the wide range of events taking part in Camden see: http://www.londonsustainabilityweeks.org

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