Climate change
This page gives details about the Council's commitment to climate change initiatives Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's low carbon vision for 2014
Lowering our carbon emissions
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Rising temperatures will affect weather patterns, sea levels and the frequency of extreme weather events. Scientists have become increasingly convinced that human actions are to blame.
As our demand for energy has increased, the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere has increased and that is seen as the main cause of climate change.
To reduce the threat of climate change, we must reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that we produce.
"We commit to publicly declare, within appropriate plans and strategies, the commitment to achieve a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from our own authority's operations, especially energy sourcing and use, travel and transport, waste production and disposal and the purchase of goods and services"
Excerpt from The Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change, signed by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council in January 2007.
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's low carbon vision for 2014:
- To reduce energy consumption and increase efficiency
- To reduce our carbon emissions, associated costs, and
- To act as an exemplar for the wider community
Useful information:
BBC Climate change information
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Greenhouse gas emissions report 2010/11 (PDF Document, 75.58 Kb)
Last updated: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 2:24 pm
