Nottingham Declaration

We signed up to the Nottingham Declaration on climate change in 2006, joining over 300 other councils across the UK. The Declaration means we will reduce our contribution to climate change and develop a strategy to tackle climate change and its impacts.

By signing the declaration we acknowledge:

That evidence shows that climate change is happening.
Climate change will continue to have far reaching effects on the UK's people and places, economy, society and environment.

We Welcome

The social, economic and environmental benefits which come from combating climate change:

reduced energy costs
reduced congestion
adaption to the impacts of climate change
improved local environment
reduced fuel poverty in our communities.

We Will

Work with central government to contribute, at a local level, to the delivery of the UK Climate Change Programme, the Kyoto Protocol and the target for carbon dioxide reduction by 2010.
Participate in local and regional networks for support.
Within the next two years develop plans with our partners and local communities to progressively address the causes and the impacts of climate change, according to our local priorities, securing maximum benefit for our communities.
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 purchasing of goods and services.
Assess the risk associated with climate change and the implications for our services and our communities of climate change impacts and adapt accordingly.
Encourage all sectors in our local community to take the opportunity to adapt to the impacts of climate change, to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and to make public their commitment to action.
Monitor the progress of our plans against the actions needed and publish the result.

Acknowledge the increasing impact that climate change will have on our community during the 21st century and commit to tackling the causes and effects of a changing climate on our city/county/borough/district.

Nottingham Declaration 10th Anniversary

In the autumn on 2010 Gedling Borough, along with many of the Councils signed up to the Declaration, published a public statement 'setting out the range of practical climate change projects and initiatives that they have led and supported, together with the achievements that have resulted'.