Decision details

In July 2019, the Council approved a notice of motion to declare a ‘climate emergency’, Bury to be carbon neutral by 2030, and to make immediate policy changes to achieve the targets. The Climate Change Emergency has strong demand from residents to be achieved. The Operations Department shall be the driver of this cross cutting Council programme, and every departmental Head of Service will take a lead in their area on making carbon reduction improvements, and achieving environmental savings from property rationalisation, energy efficiency, and fuel efficiency and by implementing a programme of environmental improvements. The Council will have to achieve increased levels of compliance across their buildings, introduce carbon reduction programmes to assist in achieving the carbon neutral targets, ensure savings targets for their services are met, and develop cross service working initiatives.