8. Priority 4: Sustainable Environment
We will reduce our own carbon emissions and work with the city’s key partners, businesses, communities and residents to take action to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The outcomes we want are:
- a city taking action to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change resulting in a carbon neutral city
- well-maintained parks and open spaces and biodiversity across the city
To achieve this our strategic efforts will focus on working in partnership to reduce carbon emissions, by supporting the delivery of District Heat Networks, securing affordable clean and secure energy for the city and bringing forward an electric vehicle strategy for the city.
We have a total of 8 public EV chargepoints across the city. The busiest site has around 500 uses per month.
A fifth of ECC’s fleet is electric or hybrid vehicles, including 3 electric refuse collection trucks.