Gloucester Climate Change Strategy

In 2019, against the backdrop of growing concern about the climate crisis, Gloucester City Council declared a climate emergency. In doing so the council committed to reaching net zero emissions across its own functions by 2030 and working towards net zero emissions across the wider district by 2045. 

In 2024-25, the Council partnered with the international engineering consultancy WSP to produce its first climate change strategy containing an emissions baseline and decarbonisation pathways.

The Strategy estimates the carbon savings of existing actions and identifies additional interventions required to achieve the net zero goal. As part of this process, WSP also supported the Council with undertaking a Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA). This Assessment is a tool for identifying and prioritising the council’s climate change related risks and tests the effectiveness of existing climate risk management strategies to cope with the predicted effects of climate change. 

You can read the full Gloucester Climate Change Strategy.