Climate change and sustainability

These pages include information about the Climate Change Strategy, Woking's green initiatives, the Council's approach to sustainability, links to Woking Local Agenda 21 and the latest environmental news.

The Council's Climate Change Strategy has provided a politically and corporately supported foundation for action to address climate change locally. We hope to show you the impact that the strategy is having across Woking's community. On these pages, we have included examples of some of these actions. Woking Borough Council has recognised the importance of communicating the need for local action to tackle climate change. The Council has referenced this need through a range of Climate Change Strategy Actions, which aim to set clear actions, involving a range of audiences including Council staff, residents, schools, businesses, developers, and suppliers.

Sustainability is high on the Council's agenda as a cross-cutting issue. Sustainability has been integrated across corporate activity through a variety of checklists and processes, based around a set of `16 Sustainability Themes' which cover a comprehensive range of environmental, economic and social aspirations. Guidance has been developed to enable the Council to undertake sustainability appraisals for projects, procurement activity, performance management, committee reports and service plans.