Making a positive environmental contribution and tackling climate change

This is the second underpinning theme which aims to ensure that the Sustainable Community Strategy focuses on wider environmental sustainable issues across all themes and that Coventry is tackling climate change.

Long-term outcomes:

  • Coventry's carbon footprint will have been reduced.
  • Coventry will be making more sustainable use of natural resources - less energy and water will be used, less waste and pollution will be produces, more waste will be recycled.
  • Coventry will be better prepared for the impacts of climate change.

Short-term priorities:

  • Reduce the carbon dioxide emissions produced by Coventry City Council and the wider community, supported by robust systems of measuring, managing and monitoring - learn from this and disseminate good practice across the Coventry Partnership.
  • Improve understanding and awareness among local people of how they can adopt more sustainable lifestyles through education, advice and support.
  • Proactively encourage individuals and organisations to adopt behaviours that will minimise their impact on climate change, and provide specific guidance to help them to do so.
  • "Climate-proof" Coventry's key strategies and plans.
  • Develop and start to implement the city's climate change strategy.
  • Develop and start to implement the city's waste strategy.

 

Click here for more on Coventry's Climate Change Strategy