Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

The Council's commitment to saving energy and tackling climate change

In March 2007 the Council signed up to the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change.  The declaration sets out that the Council “acknowledges the increasing impact that climate change will have on our community during the 21st century and commits to tackling the causes and effects of a changing climate on our district”.

The document commits the Council to reducing its own energy use and carbon dioxide emissions and to encouraging other businesses and individuals in the Vale of White Horse to do the same. For more information about the Nottingham Declaration see the Energy Saving Trust website.

Rising to the challenge of climate change is an objective in the Council's Corporate Plan - for details of how it intends to do that see our page rising to the challenge of climate change.

Since signing the Nottingham Declaration the Council has since developed its Climate Change Strategy and Carbon Management Plan.  The Carbon Management Plan sets out how the Council will reduce energy and fuel use in its own buildings and vehicles.  The Council is currently working with the Energy Saving Trust to develop a Local Area Carbon Emissions Reduction Strategy which will look at how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions across the Vale of White Horse. 

Council Leader Cllr Jerry Patterson (left) and Chief Executive Terry Stock signing the Nottingham Declaration