Our climate change work

Since declaring a climate emergency, the council has taken a number of actions to reduce emissions across the borough.

The declaration commits the Council to become carbon neutral in its internal operations and the service it delivers, by 2030, and to work with partners to help achieve this target for the High Peak as a whole.

The Council also adopted a Nature Recovery Declaration in 2024. This committed the Council to supporting the recovery of nature across High Peak. Plans for Nature have also been adopted in collaboration with the Wildlife Trust. 

About our work

Since declaring a climate emergency the Council has taken a number of actions:

• The Council has hosted annual community events which brought together a number of interested groups to highlight local issues and share ideas.
• The Council set out its Climate Change Plans along 7 key themes

• Established a community Climate and Nature fund to support community groups deliver related projects.
• The Council has a Carbon Literate Organisation award.
• The Joint Climate Change and Nature Steering Group has been established.
• The Council compiles and publishes a Climate Change Annual Report which includes borough-wide emissions along with the operational emissions of the Council. The report includes.
• We are working with community groups across the borough to mutually support initiatives to decrease the carbon emissions and to develop strategies to enhance biodiversity.
• We work with other local authorities across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire on collective climate and nature projects.
• We are part of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Climate Network - you can find out more and sign up to newsletters here Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Climate Network - climate action.
• The Council has declared a nature emergency and has committed to actions to support its recovery.  
• The Council has published a borough-wide Plan for Nature to support nature recovery - Click here for our Nature landing page.

Joint Climate Change and Nature Steering Group

The Joint Climate Change and Nature Steering Group brings together members from both High Peak and Staffordshire Moorlands to  influence the Climate Change Delivery Plans and Plans for Nature.

Here you can find information about the group, links to meeting agendas and minutes, and the latest bulletin from the group.

Plans and Statements

You can find our plans and statements on these links

• Climate Change Action Plan - Part 1 - Our operational emissions
• High Peak Climate Change Action Plan Borough Emissions
• Plan for Nature  Plan for Nature summary
• Nature Recovery Declaration

Annual Reports

• Climate Change Annual report 2022 Climate change annual report
• Climate Change Annual report 2023