In their Climate meeting last week, the cabinet have agreed for Buckinghamshire to achieve net zero carbon emissions across the whole county by 2050.
Buckinghamshire Council has made a firm commitment to take action against climate change by adopting 60 different actions to become carbon neutral by 2050. The Climate Change strategy, which is made up of a range of actions worth nearly £10 million, will work at a local level to tackle environmental damage and improve the air quality right across the Buckinghamshire Council area.
Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change Bill Chapple OBE, has suggests avenues the council are looking at to help in the future: "I believe we've got to go out there to our partners, the local enterprise partnership, to Bucks Business First and work with them. We've got to go to the colleges and suggest courses on how to put in alternative central heating, because people will need to be retrained."
The Council has outlined practical and realistic steps it will take to reduce both its own emissions and supporting the reduction of emissions from across Buckinghamshire by 2050. The Council is also committed to supporting each of the 16 local community boards serving local communities across the county in their local climate control initiatives which can deliver practical carbon reduction actions at a grass roots level.
To also help offset carbon emissions, over the next ten years Buckinghamshire Council is going to plant a tree for every person (543,000) living in Buckinghamshire.
Bill continued: “My focus is to set out a plan which is not only aspirational and ambitious but, most importantly, achievable. The strategy we have agreed to follow is not an abstract ‘pie in the sky’ vision, it is firmly grounded in reality. We’re taking action on climate change today so we can all benefit from a better tomorrow.”
But he did warn that this will only become a reality, if everyone in Bucks can pitch in too: "What we have got to do as a body, as all the people in Bucks, is to change the way we do things. That's what I want people to understand, this is not the way forward for other people, this is the way forward for yourself."
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