Engagement and partnership are central to how we will deliver our Sustainable Futures Strategy.
The actions that will have the biggest impact on enhancing biodiversity, reducing emissions in Warwickshire and providing equity across our communities are not always within the gift of the County Council to enact. Many of them will be the responsibility of the District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Central Government, other public service providers or with businesses, landowners and residents.
This means that, alongside taking our own actions, we also have a role to engage and strengthen partnership working between the local councils, wider public sector, the NHS, the West Midlands Combined Authority and with Central Government.
Following on from the Coventry and Warwickshire Climate Conference in March 2022, we have set up a Warwickshire Public Sector Net Zero Group. This group is a space for all of Warwickshire’s public sector organisations to share best practice, collaborate to realise efficiencies, and build a sense of common ownership and shared responsibility, helping to turn the challenge into practicable, deliverable activities.
We also have a role to support and coordinate efforts with our businesses, residents and local climate and community groups, encouraging and enabling behaviour change.
