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Climate change

Tewkesbury Borough Council declared a Climate Emergency on 1 October 2019 and in May 2023, the council extended this declaration to a Borough wide Climate and Ecological Emergency.

The council aims to be carbon neutral by 2030 by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from our operations, in particular the council’s Public Service Centre building.

Being carbon neutral means that after reducing greenhouse gas emissions, any remaining emissions released into the atmosphere from an organisation’s activities are balanced by an equivalent amount being removed.

In addition to the council’s own buildings becoming carbon neutral, the council has:

  • Declared a borough-wide climate emergency
  • Declared a nature (ecological) emergency, recognising that climate change and the resultant loss of biodiversity pose a threat to our wellbeing
  • Committed to doing everything possible to make Tewkesbury Borough carbon neutral by 2030, taking into account both production-based and consumer-based emissions
  • Declared support for the Climate and Ecology Bill.

The new council plan (2025–2028) features caring for our environment as a priority whereby we will provide community leadership to support the borough to become carbon neutral as well as delivering policies and practices that protect and enhance our environment.

Our strategy

We developed a Carbon Reduction Programme which sets out immediate actions alongside a long-term strategy for the Council to become carbon neutral.

The Council has created a Climate Change Framework to steer its actions in mitigating and adapting to the climate emergency.

We are working with residents, businesses, community groups and other organisations on climate issues across the borough.

“Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit. Climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to increasing climate risks.” Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, 2022