Tag: climate emergency

BCP Council 2050 Climate Action Plan

A draft action plan was submitted to Council in December 2019, outlining actions that we could make with our partner organisations, local businesses and residents to reduce our collective carbon emissions. We are working to eliminate our carbon footprint by

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Climate Change strategy 2020-2025

The Climate Change Strategy sets out East Lothian Council’s commitment to tackling the Climate Emergency at  a local level and sets out the vision and overall aims for a ‘Net Zero Council’ and a ‘Carbon Neutral East Lothian’ with specific

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Climate Emergency

The Council declared a Climate Emergency in February 2019, which committed them to a 60% reduction in emissions by 2030 and to investigate what further actions are necessary to make the county carbon neutral by 2050. It then produced a Climate Emergency Update Report highlighting

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Liveable Neighbourhoods

In March 2019 the council declared a Climate Emergency. The Council pledged to provide the leadership enabling B&NES and the council itself to become carbon neutral by 2030 A Climate Emergency Action Plan was approved in October 2019 and recommends

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