Shaping our climate and nature work in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire from 2026

In autumn 2025 we teamed up with South Cambridgeshire District Council to invite people to help shape the councils’ approaches to climate and nature work in the coming years.

Both councils have visions for a region where nature thrives, the air and rivers are clean, communities are resilient to the changing climate, and future generations can flourish.

The consultation is now closed.

We're grateful to everyone who participated in the consultation. The councils will use your feedback to help shape the final strategies - which are expected to be published in March 2026, subject to approval by Council Cabinet members.

Our previous climate change work

Tackling climate change has been one of our key policy priorities since 2007. We declared a climate emergency in 2019 and shared a vision for Cambridge to be net zero carbon by 2030 in our Climate Change Strategy 2021 to 2026. [PDF, 4MB]

As our current climate change strategy comes to an end in 2026, we are now asking local people to help shape our next climate change strategy for 2026 onwards - see information above.

The climate change strategy for 2021 to 2026 included six key objectives to address the causes and consequences of climate change:

• Reducing carbon emissions from our buildings, land, vehicles and services
• Reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions from homes and buildings
• Reducing carbon emissions from transport
• Reducing consumption of resources, reducing waste, and increasing recycling
• Promoting sustainable food
• Supporting residents, businesses and our services to adapt to the impacts of climate change

Our Climate Change Strategy Action Plan [PDF, 0.5MB] explained our plans to achieve this vision. Our Carbon Management Plan explained our plans to reduce our own emissions to net zero.

Our objectives depend partly on the government, industry and regulators making necessary changes.

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