Introduction and areas of focus
Our Climate Emergency Action Plan: Pathway to Net Zero (CEAP or ‘Pathway’) sets out our aim to achieve the 2030 target by acting holistically as a town, not just as a council working in isolation.
Introduction
Cheltenham Borough Council declared a climate emergency in July 2019 and committed to becoming a net zero council and borough by 2030. This declaration was followed by our Climate Emergency Action Plan: Pathway to Net Zero, published in 2022. In 2024, the progress of the actions listed were reviewed and updated to move forward the delivery of the 2030 targets. You can read the updated action plan in these pages or you can download a PDF of the 2024 update. We have collated our actions based on eight categories to help provide focus to the broad impact of the climate emergency.
We aim to take the annual review of the Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) to the council's overview and scrutiny committee once a year. The scrutiny committee looks at any issues affecting local people and makes recommendations based on evidence, so the annual review of the Pathway and the emerging actions will be of particular interest to the committee.
Quaterly updates are gathered internally and reported back to our climate programme board to monitor and evaluate our progress against the list of actions set out below.