Climate Change

We have a target for Ribble Valley Brough Council to be carbon-neutral council by 2030 and we are working to reduce our carbon footprint year on year.

What are we doing to tackle climate change?

We have established a cross-party climate change working group to investigate ways the local authority can take and promote action to cut its carbon footprint and to adopt more environmentally-friendly ways of working.

We published a Climate Change Strategy in August 2021 and we have updated our Climate Change Action Plan 2024/2025.

The council has already taken a number of steps to reduce its carbon emissions and we encourage others to do the same.  Some of the actions we have taken so far are listed in the Climate Change Strategy.

Our current Climate Change Strategy

Our overall vision is that by 2030 we will be a carbon-neutral council. The council's own operations will be clean and efficient, and we will play a positive role in supporting the wider district to also achieve carbon neutrality.

To deliver this objective we are focusing on:

• The Council as an organisation
• The Council as a service provider
• The Council as a community leader

The climate change working group will continually monitor and evaluate the progress of the action plan against intended outcomes, and review and refine it based on lessons learnt.

The main themes of the plan are:

• Achieve carbon neutrality in our buildings
• Reduce, reuse and recycle
• Reduce carbon emissions from business travel and transport
• Sustainable procurement
• Protect the environment
• Save energy
• Water management
• Work with partners, businesses and residents on climate change initiatives

We will report our own emissions every year.

Our latest carbon footprint report.

We urge all Ribble Valley residents and businesses to join us on the mission to tackle climate change.