Last updated:
26th September 2025
Climate Emergency Action Plan
How we are tackling climate change
In July 2019, Wokingham Borough Council declared a climate emergency and committed to do as much as possible to become carbon neutral by 2030.
Climate Emergency Strategy
Our Climate Emergency Strategy outlines our commitment and vision to work towards a carbon neutral Wokingham Borough and establishes nine key priority areas to reduce carbon gas emissions and actively address climate challenges in our Borough.
Key priorities
Our 9 key priorities are to:
- Reduce emissions from transport.
- Generate more renewable energy.
- Reduce emissions from buildings.
- Increase the levels of carbon sequestration through greening the environment.
- Reduce waste sent to landfill.
- Utilise planning policies to minimise emissions from new developments
- Achieve sustainable procurement practices throughout the Council
- Encourage behaviour change.
- Wokingham Borough Council to reduce emissions by improving its own operations.
Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP)
Our Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) contains actions to mitigate carbon emissions across the nine priority areas based on local priorities. Progress against these actions are reported and published every year. As we work towards achieving carbon neutrality, these plans are crucial to tackling climate change in our Borough.
Our latest CEAP was approved at Council on 25 September 2025 and demonstrates the planned steps on our journey towards achieving this goal, along with the current progress on each action.
Key Achievements 2025
Here are some of the key highlights of what we’ve achieved in the 2024/2025 action plan:
Have your say
To scrutinise the Climate Emergency Action Plan, a Climate Emergency Overview and Scrutiny Committee is in place. This panel includes representatives from all major council parties and gives residents and members of the community the opportunity to submit questions and scrutinise the climate-related work of the Council. If you would like to submit a question to the committee you can find out how to take part in our meetings.
Equalities Impact Assessment
It is recognised that any policies and actions on climate change may have implications for residents from different demographic backgrounds. Equality impact assessments are carried out on any policy or changes that may have any impact on those with protected characteristics, and how they impact on service delivery. It is a way of carefully thinking about the needs of different groups of people, their experiences of inequality, and barriers that might stop people accessing services. It is also an opportunity to identify how projects can advance equality and promote understanding between communities.
