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Chesterfield Borough Council

… climate change at the centre of everything we do as a council, ensuring this is always considered as part of our service output and decision-making processes. Reducing carbon emissions and making vital steps to cut the environmental impacts from our services will help us to continue to protect our communities and ensure that future projects planned in our borough are equipped for a changing…

… have used this feedback along with responses from our recent consultation and targeted research to help develop our new strategy. chesterfield.gov.uk/climate-action-now 5 The new seven-year strategy (2023-2030) is based around several themes including: buildings and energy use, travel, green space, land use and offsetting carbon emissions. This is our formal commitment to putting…

… for future activity, and improve organisational capability for further development. 4.2 Becoming carbon neutral will involve the council changing its energy and fuel use. A preliminary estimate of emissions taken for our baseline year (2019/20 – when we declared a climate emergency) shows total annual emissions from council sources to be around 3,867 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). Fig…

… 20% of the borough by area. This report includes an estimated total value of the trees within the borough for: carbon storage (£2.9 million) and an annual value covering carbon uptake, pollution abatement, and avoided flooding (£4.6 million per year) • Around 3,500 trees have been planted by the council since the 2020/21 planting season 16 Climate Change Strategy | Chesterfield Borough…

… Strategy | Chesterfield Borough Council 5 The new strategy priority areas 5.1 The principle objectives of the new Climate Change Strategy build upon the council’s original climate change commitment i.e. to decarbonise the council’s operations to become carbon neutral by 2030, and to work toward decarbonising the wider borough by 2050. 5.2 This strategy document represents the next stage…