NCB joins climate change task force

Thursday 4 June 2009

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has announced that Jo Butcher, NCB's assistant director of health, wellbeing and environment, is to be one of 16 members of the Third Sector Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development.

The aim of the task force is  to develop a vision and an action plan for wider third sector involvement in climate change, the environment and sustainable development. The action plan will identify and recommend long-lasting environmental actions for organisations across the sector.

Butcher said: "Climate change affects the children's sector in terms of the services  it provides, its ability to  deliver these services, and the costs of future problems arising from climate change. If we are smart, climate change can be an issue that unites us all in action to  address a range of social, economic, public health and political issues."

The task force is made up  of 16 individuals from across the third sector and will have both ministerial and third sector chairs. Green Alliance and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations are acting as the secretariat.

For more information, email jbutcher@ncb.org.uk or visit www.defra.gov.uk/