Outcome 3: Address the climate crisis and build a more sustainable environment
We will:
- continue to play our part in tackling the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions across the borough, making our energy and travel cleaner and greener and supporting residents and businesses to lower their own impact
- protecting and enhancing our parks, rivers and green spaces and making the borough more resilient to a changing climate so Greenwich is greener, healthier and ready for future generations
Our commitments to getting rid of waste
We commit to:
- introducing separate collections for food and garden waste
- expanding the food waste service to all households and flats
Our environment and biodiversity commitments
We commit to:
- implementing a sustainable approach for local communities, and investing in re-wilding
- increasing investment in gully cleaning and sustainable drainage systems
- improving the health of our trees and planting thousands more by 2030, supporting urban cooling, nature and local biodiversity
Our commitments to reducing carbon and air pollution
We commit to:
- retrofitting council homes, more electric vehicle charging stations, developing heat networks, putting climate at the centre of new development
- make council homes more energy efficienct to reduce the energy needed to heat and cool them
- a new fleet of climate-friendly vehicles, cutting standard fleet emissions by 90%
- supporting local organisations to deliver climate-friendly projects, such as home retrofitting and renewable energy installations
- promoting more zero emission vehicles through our emissions-based parking charging and offering more on street charging
- improve air quality around schools during busy drop off and pick up times through more School Streets