Including 10 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce, and carbon emissions.
… 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…
… council services to reduce emissions. Recent highlights of the work we have completed to date include making sustainability and climate change a central theme of the latest Local Plan, introducing climate change as a formal requirement in our decision making and ensuring all of our energy comes from renewable sources. We are continuing to do all we can to ensure we focus our efforts where we know…
… 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…
… 9 2.6 In addition to the council’s internal policy and strategy, locally, Derbyshire County Council has adopted the goal of reducing emissions generated by the county council to net-zero by 2032 with a further aim of achieving county decarbonisation by 20502. Vision Derbyshire, which is a collective of local authorities across Derbyshire (including Chesterfield Borough Council) has developed…
… to change our activity, but current projections suggest that we can expect average summer temperatures in the borough to increase by between 1.6 and 6.3°C by 2080 (when compared to pre-industrial levels). We can also expect winter rainfall to increase by between 6% and 56% over the same period. The wide margin of possible effects is a reflection of the uncertainty in how global emissions will change…