Borough Climate Change Strategy: Consultation
This consultation is open until 18 October 2024.
We have released our Draft Borough Climate Change Strategy for consultation!
The council has developed this Borough Climate Change Strategy to identify key actions required to set the borough on the path to net zero. It has been designed with residents in mind, ensuring that community is at the heart of all that we do.
It is now your turn to tell us what you think!
Our strategy proposes 24 ambitions for the Borough, across 8 key sectors for climate action. These ambitions are to be owned and delivered not only by the council, but also by our residents, businesses, anchor institutions and wider community actors. The purpose of this strategy is to highlight how we all need to take action to tackle climate change. These ambitions set out a vision for our borough in 2030.
Cabinet agreed to take our strategy to public consultation, a process happening throughout Summer and Autumn 2024.
Please read through our strategy here, and complete our online consultation!
Please also tell us what you are willing to do to help make the borough a more sustainable place by 2030.
Just click the 'make a pledge' button below, tell us your pledge and it will be included in our final strategy upon publication!
Make a climate pledge
When I moved here two years ago from Surrey the other residents of my property (five flats) did not even have a brown recycling bin. There were two large green general waste paladins, a smaller standard general waste bin and a green waste paper bin that's all. I therefore ordered a brown bin and had one of the large paladins removed asking the other residents to now separate their waste marking the top of each with notices to that effect. Prior to this there was no proper separation of waste at all! It has taken time for them to change but his bin now cannot hold all of their recycled waste. My pledge is to now order a second brown bin and even now have the now redundant smaller green general waste bin removed. Ideally I wish to eventually also have the remaining paladin bin removed leaving to just have two smaller green general waste bins to take the much reduced general waste. This action not only now creates recycling where there was none before, but also results in less work, idling and landfill etc. for the collection contractors as well as removing the mass of unsightly plastic waste bins that crowded the outside of the place where I and others live. My linked pledge is to question why the other residents were ignorant of this need and to act on urging a leaflet or information campaign to this end. We desperately need to help educate and win over people's hearts and minds to this climate emergency and urgently change our ways.
I will get China to close all their coal fired generating plants,along with Germany
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