{"id":27,"date":"2014-08-04T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:16:13","slug":"strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/strategy","title":{"rendered":"Taking action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon County Council has a long and proud history of acting on climate change. You can compare how we are doing with other local authorities by looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/councilclimatescorecards.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Emergency UK Scorecard<\/a>. You can find out more about how Devon County Council\u2019s strategy to address climate change in the way it delivers its services and how we are reducing our own emissions through the Carbon Reduction Plan from the links below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-menu content-menu-default\"><ul class=\"grid-x grid-margin-x small-up-1 medium-up-2 large-up-2 content-menu-container\"><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-1\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><div class=\"content-menu-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" \r\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2025\/09\/Chapel-Street-Tiverton-Copyright-Lewis-CLarke-and-licensed-for-reuse-under-Creative-Commons-Licence-4.0-3174972_1ad1bf92_1024x1024-Edited-v2-e1758903823129-640x480.jpg\" \r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2025\/09\/Chapel-Street-Tiverton-Copyright-Lewis-CLarke-and-licensed-for-reuse-under-Creative-Commons-Licence-4.0-3174972_1ad1bf92_1024x1024-Edited-v2-e1758903823129-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2025\/09\/Chapel-Street-Tiverton-Copyright-Lewis-CLarke-and-licensed-for-reuse-under-Creative-Commons-Licence-4.0-3174972_1ad1bf92_1024x1024-Edited-v2-e1758903823129-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2025\/09\/Chapel-Street-Tiverton-Copyright-Lewis-CLarke-and-licensed-for-reuse-under-Creative-Commons-Licence-4.0-3174972_1ad1bf92_1024x1024-Edited-v2-e1758903823129-420x315.jpg 420w\" \r\n                sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 640px, (max-width: 1023px) 420px, 420px\" \r\n                width=\"640\" \r\n                height=\"480\" \r\n                alt=\"Chapel Street, Tiverton, Copyright Lewis Clarke. Street with flooded road surrounded by houses. Pub and white van in foreground. People in background. https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/photo\/3174972\" \r\n                \/><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/strategy\/climate-change-strategy\">Climate change strategy<\/a><\/h3><\/div><p>Chapel Street, Tiverton.  Copyright Lewis Clarke<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-2\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><div class=\"content-menu-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" \r\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2021\/11\/Electric-cars-at-County-Hall-scaled.jpg\" \r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2021\/11\/Electric-cars-at-County-Hall-scaled.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2021\/11\/Electric-cars-at-County-Hall-scaled.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2021\/11\/Electric-cars-at-County-Hall-scaled.jpg 420w\" \r\n                sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 640px, (max-width: 1023px) 420px, 420px\" \r\n                width=\"640\" \r\n                height=\"357\" \r\n                alt=\"Electric cars at County Hall\" \r\n                \/><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/environment\/document\/devon-county-councils-carbon-reduction-plan-2020-2030?preview=true\">Corporate carbon reduction plan <\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon County Council has a long and proud history of acting on climate change. You can compare how we are doing with other local authorities by looking at the Climate Emergency UK Scorecard. You can find out more about how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/strategy\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Taking action\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 15:12:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/energyandclimatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}