Climate emergency strategy
Our Aims
Leicester City Council will:
- Improve existing housing, workplaces and community buildings in the city to enable them to become carbon neutral, energy and water efficient
- Improve environmental standards of new development towards a carbon neutral standard
- Increase renewable energy generation and encourage storage of surplus to meet peak demand
- Reduce carbon emissions from travel and transport towards our carbon neutral goals through walking, cycling, improved public transport and ultra-low emissions vehicles
- Tackle carbon emissions from the city’s use of goods and raw materials, including food and waste
- Protect Leicester from increased risk of heatwaves and flooding by using nature-based solutions wherever possible
- Enhance and protect biodiversity, green spaces and trees from climate change impacts
- Increase the amount of carbon locked up in soil, trees and other vegetation
- Respond to climate change impacts in ways that reduce poverty and inequality, improve health and wellbeing, and stimulate the local economy and green job creation
- Engage meaningfully with residents, groups, organisations and businesses across the city and form effective partnerships to encourage everyone to play their part in tackling the Climate Emergency
The Six Themes
The objectives of the strategy are structured around six key themes where urgent and significant action is needed to reach our carbon reduction ambitions.
