Environmental Sustainability
What Are City of Doncaster Council Doing for environmental sustainability?
In 2019, Doncaster Council declared a climate emergency. In 2020, we commissioned the development and adoption of our Environment & Sustainability Strategy 2020-2030 which sets out 111 actions that we aim to take to reduce Doncaster’s emissions, including our own, and do our part in helping the UK meet its legal binding target of reaching Net Zero by 2050 and keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
What we’re doing right now:
- Installing electric car charging infrastructure utilising Government Funding
- Assisting in the development of clean energy generation in Doncaster
- Deploying energy-saving measures to hundreds of homes across Doncaster
- Carrying out tree-planting initiatives to help reach Doncaster's Million Trees Challenge
- Enhancing the quality of allotment environment, increasing plot usage, and promoting allotments as part of healthy lifestyle and community resource
- Delivering Carbon Literacy training, climate education, behaviour change, and community engagement and support programmes.
- Leading on Climate Action Week.
- Facilitating community action through the Environmental Pride programme.
Still Looking To Learn More?
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"We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that.” —David Attenborough