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…: Adaptation Managing and living with the changes Mitigation Reducing our greenhouse emissions For some suggestions of things you can do yourself, see our lists of mitigation and adaptation measures. What are the council doing? Climate Change represents one of the biggest challenges we will face, not just locally but worldwide. We will all need to work…
… together. The council is taking this problem very seriously and declared a climate emergency in July 2019.Our first Climate Change Action Plan covered 2019 to 2023 and included forty-five specific, measurable actions that we have focussed on and has led to a reduction in the organisation’s emissions by about one third. Building on this work we have developed a new Climate Change Strategy which…
… will guide the organisation to achieving our target of becoming a carbon neutral organisation by 2030 and lay the groundwork for our second target of becoming a carbon neutral borough by 2050. The new strategy is based around six central themes that describe the areas where the council can have the biggest impact and influence in reducing our own emissions and supporting others to do the same. Each theme…
… will provide a structure for specific actions across all council services which will be created and monitored through an annual delivery plan. In this short video, Councillor Amanda Serjeant Deputy Leader of Chesterfield Borough Council, explains what the council has done since 2019 to reduce our emissions by about one third. Cllr Serjeant also explains the themes of our new strategy and how this will help…