| Respond to the Climate Emergency |
- Reduce carbon emissions to help achieve a net zero Carbon footprint for Council Services by 2030.
- Environment and sustainability embedded within all Council decision making and the adaptation and recovery from Covid-19.
- Air quality across Colchester is improved.
- Continue to support residents to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste.
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| Conserve and enhance biodiversity |
- Minimise the environmental impact of our activities.
- Enhance environments to create more space for nature to grow and thrive through natural seeding and greening.
- Discover, nurture and enable the work led by communities that promotes biodiversity.
- Plant native species and manage our woodlands, meadows and greenspace whilst sustaining existing habitats.
- Work alongside communities to maintain clean, green neighbourhoods and urban spaces that we all look after and enjoy.
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| Enable more opportunity for walking and cycling around Colchester |
- Work with partners to implement strategies and develop measures to reduce traffic in the town centre.
- Improve facilities and routes for cyclists and walkers to enable active travel behaviours, healthier lifestyles and reduce car use.
- Ensure major regeneration projects put physical activity, cycling and walking at the forefront of development.
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