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Gloucester City Council

Declarations & pledges

Climate emergency declaration

This council declared a climate emergency on July 11, 2019.

Council only pledge for 2030

“This committed the Council to becoming carbon neutral by 2030.”

Whole area pledge for 2050

“This committed the Council to becoming carbon neutral by 2030 and the City as whole by 2050.”

Climate documents

Last update: March 16, 2022
Tackling Climate Change Road Map

Action Plan · PDF · Draft · Whole Area

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Climate Plan Scorecard

This council’s climate plans as of 20th September 2021 were assessed and scored by trained Climate Emergency UK volunteers, as part of the Council Climate Plan Scorecards project.

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Gloucester City Council scored zero points in this assessment. This is because the council either didn’t have any published plans at the time of the assessment, or the plans didn’t qualify.

SectionGloucester City CouncilAverage district council
Total score0%43%
Section 1 Governance, development and funding
0/21
9.4/21
Section 2 Mitigation and adaptation
0/18
8.1/18
Section 3 Commitment and integration
0/7
3.8/7
Section 4 Community, engagement and communications
0/9
4.7/9
Section 5 Measuring and setting emissions targets
0/5
2.6/5
Section 6 Co-benefits
0/4
1.9/4
Section 7 Diversity and inclusion
0/5
0.5/5
Section 8 Education, skills and training
0/5
1.5/5
Section 9 Ecological emergency
0/4
1.8/4

Emissions data

481.1 ktCO2

Total 2019 emissions

3.7 tCO2

per person

11.8 ktCO2

per km2

18%

Commercial

34%

Domestic

14%

Industry

9%

Public Sector

24%

Transport

Data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy “subset dataset”, representing carbon dioxide emissions within the scope of influence of local authorities.

These councils are the most similar to Gloucester City Council in terms of emissions profile, deprivation, rural/urban population density, and geographical nearness. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Cardiff Council78%Yes2030March 28, 2019
Sheffield City Council77%Yes2050Feb. 6, 2019
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council76%Yes2030July 18, 2019
Cheltenham Borough Council76%Yes2030Feb. 18, 2019
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority76%Yes2040April 28, 2019
City of Lincoln Council75%No2030July 23, 2019
Newport City Council75%Yes2030Nov. 23, 2021
Worcester City Council75%No2030July 16, 2019
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea74%Yes2030Oct. 1, 2019
Broxtowe Borough Council74%Yes2027July 17, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Gloucester City Council in terms of their emissions profile, based on the latest data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Stevenage Borough Council88%No2030June 12, 2019
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority80%Yes2040April 28, 2019
City of Lincoln Council77%No2030July 23, 2019
Blackpool Borough Council77%Yes2030June 26, 2019
Torbay Council74%Yes2030June 19, 2019
Isle of Wight Council72%No2030July 24, 2019
Dundee City Council72%Yes2045June 24, 2019
Burnley Borough Council71%No2030July 10, 2019
Harlow Council71%Yes2030July 11, 2019
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council71%Yes2030April 3, 2019

These councils grographically border or overlap with Gloucester City Council. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Stroud District Council97%No2030Dec. 13, 2018
Tewkesbury Borough Council97%Yes2030Oct. 1, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Gloucester City Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in high deprivation, medium deprivation, and low deprivation neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Havant Borough Council93%Yes2050No
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council90%NoNo targetNo
Renfrewshire Council90%No2030June 27, 2019
Redditch Borough Council90%No2050Sept. 23, 2019
Warrington Borough Council88%Yes2030June 7, 2019
West Lancashire Borough Council87%Yes2030July 17, 2019
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council84%Yes2030Oct. 8, 2019
Dundee City Council83%Yes2045June 24, 2019
Swindon Borough Council83%Yes2030No
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council83%Yes2038July 17, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Gloucester City Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in urban, rural, and highly rural neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Hastings Borough Council100%Yes2030Feb. 13, 2019
Plymouth City Council100%Yes2030March 18, 2019
Cambridge City Council100%Yes2030Feb. 21, 2019
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council100%NoNo targetJuly 6, 2020
Derby City Council100%No2050May 23, 2019
Worcester City Council100%No2030July 16, 2019
Worthing Borough Council100%YesJuly 18, 2019
Gosport Borough Council100%Yes2050No
Stevenage Borough Council100%No2030June 12, 2019
Ipswich Borough Council100%Yes2030July 9, 2019

Powers & Responsibilities

Gloucester City Council is a Non-Metropolitan District, with powers over:

Council buildings and staff

Climate actions might include:

  • making council offices more energy efficient
  • incentivising ‘Active Travel’ or public transport use among employees
  • providing carbon literacy training for employees
    Environmental health

    Climate actions might include:

    • reducing industrial emissions through air quality enforcement
    • bringing up insulation and energy efficiency standards through enforcement of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and Decent Homes Standard 2000, for cold and damp conditions in private rental and social housing

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Planning and building control

    Climate actions might include:

    • imposing reasonable requirements that new developments comply with energy efficiency standards and get a proportion of their energy from local, renewable sources (Planning and Energy Act, 2008)
    • incorporating additional energy performance standards into their Local Plan, for new works that require planning permission
    • using Area Action Plans to guide development proposals towards lower carbon emissions or more cycling and walking routes, for example
    • enforcing legislation that requires private rental properties to be of Energy Efficiency Rating E or above (Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2015)
    • funding energy efficiency improvements on existing homes, through initiatives such as Green Homes Grants

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Housing

    Climate actions might include:

    • setting energy standards above building regulations (Planning and Energy Act, 2008)
    • enabling housing associations to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock through loans
    • where councils operate their own social housing, prioritising energy efficiency – for example, by requiring Passivhaus standard for newly built schemes

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Spending, procuring, and investing

    Climate actions might include:

    • embedding carbon impact assessment as part of the council’s budgeting and financial accountability process
    • utilising Public Works Loan Board loans or the Business Rates Retention Scheme to invest in emissions-reducing capital projects that otherwise wouldn’t get funded
    • specifying low carbon equipment and practices when procuring for relevant services from suppliers
    • prioritising positive environmental impacts during procurement, through the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
    Waste collection

    Climate actions might include:

    • establishing ‘Joint Waste Solutions’ with neighbouring councils, to get more value out of waste, recycling, and street cleaning contracts
    • running marketing campaigns to encourage residential recycling, reuse, and waste minimisation

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Read more about English local authority powers in the UK100 Power Shift report.

    More about this council

    gloucester.gov.uk
    Gloucester City Council’s official homepage.
    Tyndall Centre Carbon Budget report
    Check Gloucester City Council’s ‘carbon budget’ – their share towards meeting the UK’s Paris agreement targets.
    Friends of the Earth ‘Near You’ tool
    Discover climate groups in this area, data about Gloucester City Council’s climate performance, and actions you can take.

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    mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2022). Climate Action Plan Explorer: Gloucester City Council. Available at: http://data.climateemergency.uk/councils/gloucester-city-council/ [Accessed 27 Jun 2022].

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