Our Climate Emergency Action Plan in a Page - CEAP 2023/24
Our Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP), referred to throughout simply as ‘the Action Plan’, establishes the specific actions we are taking across the Council and the District to work towards reaching net zero and to address the climate emergency. The Action Plan follows on from our Climate Emergency Strategy (CES), referred to as ‘the Strategy’, which sets out our strategic vision for a just and sustainable transition to net zero by 2030 for both North Kesteven District Council and the District of North Kesteven. Our Strategy and Action Plan are essential to shaping our climate emergency response, which builds upon our Climate Emergency Declaration approved unanimously by Full Council in July 2019.
To ensure we stay at the forefront of the net zero transition we believe our Action Plan should be a ‘live’ document. Annual updates help us to achieve this, allowing us to review our actions to ensure they remain relevant and ambitious as we work towards our net zero goals. These reviews are conducted between January and March each year to help us create an evolving plan that keeps pace with emerging opportunities and innovations. Each Action Plan contains actions with various timeframes, some lasting less than a year, and others forming multi-year projects. To distinguish our updated Action Plans, the date is included in the Action Plan title, this is our CEAP 2023/24 which runs for the 2023/24 financial year from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
Nine themes are used to categorise our climate actions; these are shown in the diagram on the right. A wide range of actions have been developed for each theme and are detailed within this Action Plan
| Climate Emergency Themes |
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| Decision making |
| Communication and engagement |
| Adaptation |
| Buildings |
| Transport |
| Natural environment |
| Energy |
| Industry |
| Waste and water |