Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… a climate emergency and with support from members of the local community we created our first Climate Change Action Plan. Now, four years on we have made some significant steps towards becoming a carbon neutral council, but we still have more to do. Since our baseline year (2019/20), we have reduced our emissions by around a third (32%), to March 2022 and there has been significant work across all…
… activity and we will continue to demonstrate this, ensuring that it is an integral part of our decision-making processes and service delivery. 1.3 Climate change is a significant issue that affects everybody. In common with many other local authorities, the council declared a climate emergency in 20191 with the intention of becoming a carbon neutral organisation by 2030 and supporting…
… the transition of the borough to carbon neutrality by 2050. 1.4 Following the climate emergency declaration, the council adopted an initial Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) which ran from 2020 to 2023. This strategy is the successor to the first action plan, providing a broad framework for the council’s activities between 2023 and 2030. The strategy is accompanied by a climate change delivery plan, which…
… | Chesterfield Borough Council 4 Actions to date 4.1 Following the council’s climate emergency declaration, Chesterfield Borough Council developed a Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) detailing thirty-nine actions to be carried out by the council before 2023. This CCAP was formally adopted by the council in early 20208 and amended in 20219 to include six additional actions to build an evidence base…
… 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…