ASK YOUR CANDIDATES & COUNCILLORS TO SIGN THE 2030 PLEDGE
The local elections are an opportunity to ask all your candidates, as well as existing councillors, to pledge to work towards the 2030 target.
As a Councillor, I pledge to do everything in my power to ensure our local authority works in collaboration with the local community to:
- set a target date of no later than 2030 to reach net zero emissions for our whole District/County/Borough.
- develop and implement an ambitious Climate Action Plan that allows people, enterprise and nature to thrive
- ensure that tackling the climate and ecological emergency is a priority in all the actions and decisions of the local authority
I will continue to inform myself about the climate change and biodiversity crises in order to better influence policy making, and to lead by example.
CONSERVATIVE
Northumberland County Council understands that addressing climate change needs to be acted on urgently which is why our target date of net zero emissions for the county is 2030 and why we declared that there is a climate emergency.
The Government has set a target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 but we recognise that to achieve this everyone needs to act now.... The target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 is very ambitious but this target gives a degree of urgency that climate change requires.
East Suffolk council is committed to tackling climate change and developing and delivering our environmental vision across East Suffolk for all residents and stakeholders, always with a focus to be carbon neutral by 2030.
I am hugely proud of Basingstoke & Deane Council declaring a Climate Emergency in 2019, which included the incredibly ambitious targets of becoming carbon neutral as a council by 2025 and carbon neutral as a borough by 2030.
The impact of climate breakdown has already caused serious, possibly irreversible, damage around the world. For years we’ve been told about global warming and the effects on our environment of using fossil fuels and plastics; but the time for talking is over
I welcome the constructive way this council has been able to address this important topic which transcends party politics. Our climate does face serious challenges and I am pleased we have been able to work together to meet them head on.
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LIB DEM
We are already taking action on Climate Change in Somerset and co-ordinating our plans to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2030. We are also seeking to build a climate resilient county ready to adapt to likely future climate and extreme weather events.”
The future of the world is in our hands, right now, and we all have a responsibility to act on these very real warnings. Of all the projected impacts of global warming, flooding is particularly likely to affect Chelmsford and a rise in sea level will have a huge effect on Essex as a coastal county
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LABOUR
We are facing a climate emergency and we're going to be getting people in place here to work with councils, businesses and citizens to move us towards being carbon neutral by 2030...this is also an opportunity to build a more inclusive economy along the way
