Our 2030 Climate Change Strategy sets out how we’re working with residents, businesses, and partners to build a greener, fairer, and climate-ready Portsmouth.
In 2019, Portsmouth City Council declared a climate emergency with targets to make our council operations carbon net zero by 2030 and help our city to be on the same journey. Being net zero means removing the same amount of greenhouse gasses from our air, that we put in.
By doing this, we are supporting efforts to ensure global warming is limited to well below 2°C, and preferably to 1.5°C, so that we can avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Read the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to learn more about the impacts of global warming.
A recent survey showed that residents and businesses want us to lead a strong response. 84% of residents said they are concerned about climate change which matches the key outcomes from the City Vision engagement project. Residents want Portsmouth to be green, well-connected, with good homes, a fair economy, and for their lives to be active and healthy by 2040.
These are big changes that need to be made quickly, so we need everyone onboard.