Devon County Council has a long and proud history of acting on climate change. On 14 July 2004 we signed the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change.
The declaration requires councils to develop an action plan to use their responsibilities and areas of influence to help tackle climate change. As a result, Devon County Council published its first Climate Change Strategy in 2005.
The Climate Change Strategy and its action plan were revised in 2018 following a detailed review of local activity and the current policy environment by the Centre for Energy and the Environment at Exeter University.
In 2019, Devon County Council upped its commitment by declaring a climate emergency and setting up the Devon Climate Emergency Partnership, which covers the County as a whole. We also updated our Carbon Reduction Plan, setting out how we will achieve our net zero by 2030 target.
We are delivering a range of projects to help reduce Devon’s greenhouse gas emissions and implement the Strategy and Carbon Reduction Plan.
We will be updating the Council’s Climate Change Strategy to ensure that is is aligned with the Devon Carbon Plan.