A new climate change delivery plan for 2025 to 2026 has been launched to allow the council to set out its targets to reach its organisational climate change goals in the year ahead.
Themes included in the plan are buildings and energy use, travel, green space and land use, communication, engagement and training, council influence and partnership activity.
In July 2019, Chesterfield Borough Council declared a Climate Emergency. As part of the declaration, the council made a commitment to become a carbon neutral organisation by 2030 and to support the wider borough to become carbon neutral by 2050.
The council’s first climate change action plan (2019 – 2023) enabled the council to begin its journey towards it carbon neutral target. Building on this, during 2023, the council adopted a new climate change strategy (2023 – 2030) to guide us to 2030 and to undertake groundwork towards the wider borough’s 2050 decarbonisation target. This strategy is supported by an annual delivery plan.