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Chesterfield Borough Council

… 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…

… 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…

… 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…

… over the remainder - largely due to national governance of the planning process, and the planning conditions we are able to require. Climate is expected to be a core consideration under the Local Plan and remain a fundamental aspect of how we apply our influence within the borough. 5.13 Offsetting While we expect to work primarily on emissions reduction measures, in spite of our best efforts…