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Hampshire Natural Resources Initiative

Vision & Objectives

"By 2012 the Hampshire community is acclaimed for its achievement through local action in conserving and using natural resources more efficiently."

Our goals are to:

Maximise the role of commerce and industry in driving forward the more efficient and cost effective use of natural resources by:
  • Supporting Hampshire businesses in becoming leaders in technological innovation and harnessing new opportunities.
  • Improve competitiveness by disseminating best practice and ensuring that the necessary support infrastructure is in place.
  • Identifying and meeting research and development needs through stronger links with academic institutions and national programmes.
  • Supporting social objectives, including the creation of new jobs in areas where they are needed.
  • Support Hampshire business in understanding and acting upon the emerging environmental regulations and legislation.

Promote the concept of ‘consumer responsibility’ by ensuring that people have the information to make informed lifestyle choices with the aim of:

  • Minimising consumption of finite resources.
  • Reducing rate of growth in waste and the more efficient use of water, energy, minerals and other parts of the natural resource system.
  • Maximising participation to improve recycling levels.
  • Encouraging ‘green’ purchasing.
  • Making ‘consumer responsibility’ part of the education agenda and highlighting the impact of consumer decisions.

Reduce the impact of natural resource consumption on Hampshire’s environment and climate change by:

  • Increasing the contribution from renewable resources.
  • Promote best practice in ‘sustainable’ construction, agriculture, industrial, commercial and service operations.
  • Adopting the use of ‘green’ industrial processes and innovative waste management technologies and systems.
  • Seeking to reduce the impact of transport.
  • Anticipating the impact of climate and other change on resource use.

Establish the public sector as examples of best practice in natural resource use by:

  • Seeking to integrate sustainability into all activities and services by ensuring that natural resource efficiency considerations are central to all decisions taken and services delivered.
  • Using local public policy to influence change.
  • Championing ‘green’ purchasing and sustainable construction.
  • Demonstrating the viability and benefits of natural resource efficiencies.
  • Maximising synergies with education programmes.
  • Achieving the ‘triple bottom line’ by linking natural resource initiatives to the achievement of social, environmental and financial objectives.

Influence change at EC/UK government levels by:

  • Getting Hampshire recognised as a leader in natural resource issues.
  • Actively participating through community, political and professional networks in debates at on policy development and new regulations.
  • Developing an agenda for EC/UK government action that reflects the aspirations of the Hampshire community.
  • Ensuring that politicians, the media and other opinion formers are briefed on the Hampshire agenda.

 

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