You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
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You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
On 21 March 2019 councillors at Suffolk County Council voted to declare a climate emergency.
We will:
This was declared on 21 March 2019.
Starting by September 2019, the PDP will investigate how we can cut Suffolk County Council's carbon and harmful emissions on a spend to save basis. Our ambition is to make Suffolk County Council (including all buildings, school and services) carbon neutral by 2030.
This includes working with the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) and the public sector leaders, towards making the county of Suffolk carbon neutral by 2030.
We will work with government to:
You can read the agenda and minutes from 21 March 2019.
All councils in Suffolk have:
This Plan has been agreed by Suffolk’s Public Sector Leaders and will support a commitment to a green economic recovery in Suffolk as well as addressing the urgent need to deal with the climate emergency.
Read the Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan here (PDF, 2.3MB).
Alongside the Plan, a detailed Table of Actions has been published, which will be implemented in support of it. View our Table of Actions here (PDF, 400KB).
Read Ricardo’s detailed Evidence Report, produced in support of these documents (PDF, 2.35MB)
Suffolk’s Local Authorities have been working together on county-wide climate change project work since 2007 through the Suffolk Climate Change Partnership (SCCP).
In Autumn 2019 a successful Transformation Challenge Award was made to the SCCP to support further delivery towards these joint commitments.
In particular, we wished to:
Ricardo Energy & Environment (REE) were selected and commissioned to undertake an authoritative, independent study covering parts 1) to 3) above. REE are part of Ricardo, a global strategic engineering and environmental consultancy that specialises in the transport, energy, and scarce resources sectors.
Read Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan Technical Report (PDF, 3MB).
The report is an independently produced, technical background study which was produced to support stakeholder engagement prior to the creation of a Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan.
Stakeholders were engaged to help develop the content of the Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan, working with Ricardo Energy & Environment. In Autumn 2020 we hosted a series of themed workshops to explore six focus areas in depth. These can be viewed here:
This slide pack summarises the priority actions for delivering carbon neutrality by 2030 that were discussed in the six workshops: Priority Actions. This does not represent the totality of actions that will be needed to deliver carbon neutrality in Suffolk – action will also be needed in other sectors such as waste and agriculture.
A Suffolk Climate Emergency Plan has now been agreed by Suffolk’s Public Sector Leaders.