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Addressing Climate Change in Pendle

Climate change is now a major challenge which requires a global, national and local response.
We want to be part of the solution to climate change here in Pendle.

We signed up to the national climate change campaign, 10:10. By doing this we have pledged to reduce our carbon emissions by 10% by 2010.
We encouraged our partners in Pendle, including Nelson and Colne College, Housing Pendle, Pendle Leisure Trust, and East Lancashire Primary Care Trust, to sign up to 10:10.
We adopted a Climate Change Action Plan in June 2009 and developed a Climate Change Working Group.
We monitor energy consumption for both our buildings and fleet vehicles every quarter.
We are encouraging paperless meetings and are looking to introduce staff travel plans.
We have installed solar water heating at our Fleet Street building in Nelson.
We are working with user groups of community centres to ensure they understand their heating systems.
We introduced the 'Recycle More for Pendle' campaign, introducing brown bins to households in Pendle.
We gave out grants and advise to people to improve the efficiencies in their homes.

In 2008/09, the council generated in the region of 2,019 tonnes of CO2 from its buildings and transport operations.
In 2009/10, this figure has reduced to 1884 tonnes, an overall reduction of 6.6 %.
We've made fantastic progress with our recycling and have seen a reduction in the amount of waste from Pendle ending up in the landfill.
We helped cut over 7,000 tonnes of carbon emissions through energy saving measures in homes, saving over £1.4 million on household bills across Pendle last year.

We recognised that there is a clear need for all local service providers in Pendle to work closely with local communities as well as our regional and national partners to tackle the causes of climate change.
We have shown we are committed to reducing our carbon emissions to create a healthier and sustainable environment for our future generations.

Our Climate Change Working Group constantly monitors and delivers actions to reduce our carbon emissions.
Our Climate Change Action Plan will be regularly revised and updated to include new actions to help reduce our carbon emissions.
At the end of 2010, we will evaluate our success as well as our partners' success in the 10:10 campaign.
Following the 10:10, we will develop new targets to reaffirm our commitment to climate change.
We have launched a "There's no Planet B" campaign to continue to raise the issue of climate change through communications work.