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Chorley Council

… Borough and includes transport, energy, and waste. There are also many ways we can use nature to deliver carbon reductions and build our resilience to changes in the environment, such as natural flood defences and helping biodiversity to thrive. What is Our Carbon Footprint in Chorley? Carbon footprints have been calculated for both Council assets and the Borough as a whole (for further…

… and emission type will show the success of previous decarbonisation efforts and inform decisions of future actions which must be taken to meet the Council net zero goal. Policy Context The Climate Change Act 2008 introduced the UK’s first legally binding target to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050 to at least 80% of levels in 1990. Progress has been made between 1990 and 2017 with the UK…

… reducing its emissions by 42% whilst the economy has grown by more than two thirds. Government has recognised the need to go further and on 27 June 2019, the UK government amended the Climate Change Act to set a legally binding target to achieve net zero Greenhouse Gas emissions from across the UK economy by 2050. Climate change has dominated the headlines in recent times and there has been…

… Strategy (2012), The Chorley Clean Air Strategy (2021), Emergency Tree Action Plan (2021) and the Douglas Catchment Partnership Management Plan (2019). Our Strategic Objectives for Climate Change Radical changes are needed to address climate change and Chorley Council recognise that we are facing two unprecedented challenges: • We must dramatically reduce our carbon emissions • We must prepare…

… for unavoidable environmental impacts by building climate resilience into our systems and services. As a Council we directly emit a small percentage of the UK’s carbon emissions, but we influence around 40% of emissions through our roles as community leaders and via the services we deliver such as planning, streetscene services and waste collection. We are working with partners including Lancashire…