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East Cambridgeshire District Council

… by natural capital include clean air and water, food, energy, wildlife, recreation and protection from hazards. Improving our natural capital addresses how to enhance our existing nature reserves, improve biodiversity and tackle air, land and water pollution to keep our planet healthy for all species. Control and influence of the strategy This is a Plan for the Council (rather than the district…

…. Despite the on-going challenges we all faced this past 12 months, from covid to on-going cost of living rises, it’s important we don’t lose sight of the huge challenge we face around climate change and reversing biodiversity loss. And it strikes me how much these things are all interlinked. For example, if there is one thing that the covid pandemic taught us, it is how much we value high…

…, as a Council, do directly on the ground, but what we can do to help you make a difference. Therefore, I’m really pleased that our partnerships are developing really strongly, as I know we have to work together on this climate and biodiversity crisis we face. For example, I was delighted by the success of the East Cambridgeshire Parish Conference that we hosted in May 2022, resulting in a host…

… more, are set out in this Environment Plan, so please do take a look and see what exciting things are coming up. In fact, I continue to be really excited about the future. Let’s change the focus from tackling a pandemic crisis to tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis. Let’s recognise the real challenges we face with the cost of living rises, but find creative and environmentally…

… 24 4. Biodiversity and the Natural Environment 29 5. Actions and Projects 34 Review of our Top 20 Actions for 2020/21 34 Our 20 Commitments for 2022/23 43 6. Financing the Strategy and Action Plan 46 7. Further Reading 47 8. Monitoring and Evaluation 48 Identifying Projects 48 Initiating Projects 48 Monitoring 48 Reporting Progress 48 Baseline Year Recalculation Policy 48…