Climate Action Strategy
The Climate Action Strategy outlines a recommended pathway to become a net zero and climate resilient District by 2050. It details the actions that residents, the wider community, Horsham District Council, and its partners will need to take to achieve this.
The topics we have highlighted, to explore how climate issues will be tackled, are categorised into two sections: enablers and systems. If you’re interested in finding out more, a detailed Strategy document is also available.
Enablers
The Strategy works to deliver sustained climate action, by implementing policies, projects, and structures that will build capacity, relationships, and momentum. These elements are collectively referred to as “enablers” within the strategy. The strategy identifies four key enabler topics: governance, policy and planning, finance, and education and behaviour change. These enablers will facilitate the delivery of system-led interventions.
Systems
The Strategy works to deliver urgent and direct impact, by prioritising specific actions that will make large carbon savings and bolster climate resilience, accelerating climate action – labelled in the strategy as “systems”. The five system topics include buildings, transport, energy, waste, and land use and water. These system-led interventions target Horsham District’s carbon hotspots or enhance existing carbon sinks.
In addition to this website view of the strategy, if you would like to see our strategy in another format, please click one of the links below, where it can be viewed as a pdf document, or through the One Planet mind map tool.
The link to the pdf takes you to a public facing version of our strategy, and has more background about the importance of HDC leading on a Climate Action Strategy for our District.
One Planet
Action on climate is complex and cannot be achieved just by the Council. The Climate Action Strategy has, therefore, also been mapped onto an online platform, known as One Planet, which enables HDC to not only manage, track, and report on progress, but also show links between the strategy actions and with other strategies, both within the council and other organisations.
This is a really powerful way of showing how actions by stakeholders, community groups, and businesses can contribute to a shared vision of climate action for our District.