Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, has made many of the points that I would have made. It is a question of small, local bodies putting this matter sufficiently high on their priority list. This should not be seen as an imposition on those bodies, but as a help in so far as, on an everyday basis, the people allocating resources—money, time or what have you—have 1,000 immediate short-term pressures on them. It is difficult for them to say, ““These matters which may impact us in four, five or 10 years’ time must be worked on now””. However, if they can answer their local electorates, officials or councils and say, ““The Government require us to do this””, they can do it. It is a matter of getting inside that mentality, and giving them the support they need to give this important area the priority it must have.