Our strategy and action plan
Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan
Our Climate Change Strategy outlines the Council's main objectives for addressing climate change, highlighting the main risks to our borough, and refreshes the current action plans as a result.
Read our Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan
Council operations
We aim to lead by example in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions we have direct control over by 78% by 2035, before making the council’s activities net-zero by 2050. This includes reducing energy used within our buildings, leisure centres, our fleet, and our operational activities.
Wider borough
As a district authority within Lancashire County Council, we are responsible for local services such as rubbish collection, our parks and open spaces, and local planning applications, whilst the county council are responsible for services such as education, highways and waste disposal. Although we are limited in our level of influence, we understand our position as a leader within the borough. We therefore commit to support and work with all other relevant agencies towards making the entire Wyre area zero carbon within the same timescale.
Updates
The action plans are live documents, which will be updated annually to reflect emerging technologies, guidance and policies.
If you have any suggestions for actions you would like to see the council taking in response to climate change, please complete the climate change suggestion form.
Climate change suggestion form
Overview and Scrutiny Climate Change sub-committee
This group was created as a sub-committee by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at their meeting on 12 June 2023. The Overview and Scrutiny Climate Change sub-committee will undertake scrutiny, pertaining to climate change matters effecting the borough of Wyre. One of their main roles is to support and monitor the Council's approach to the delivery of the Climate Change Strategy, you can browse past meetings and agendas for more information.