Tel: 03450 450 500
Email: sustainability@scambs.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window)
About these pages
- The Low-Carbon Living pages have just been launched and are currently under review. You are welcome to send your comments to sustainability@scambs.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window)
Our Partners
- South Cambridgeshire's Environment Group
Help address the issues and monitor the progress of the Community Strategy, which contains a series of actions to help improve the quality of life across the district and that tackle climate change.
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Climate Change Network
A cross-sectoral partnership providing support to public and private sector organisations as well as local communities seeking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
- South Cambridgeshire Strategic Partnership
The South Cambridgeshire Strategic Partnership (or LSP: Local Strategic Partnership) is a partnership between the council and various partners to work together towards achieving economic, environmental and social standards for the district.
LIVING A LOW-CARBON LIFESTYLE
We believe that together we can learn how to live a low-carbon lifestyle
By burning fossil fuels (gas, oil, petrol and coal) to generate energy for our needs (e.g. heat, electricity, transport), we are releasing into the atmosphere huge quantities of carbon dioxide and other gases, which are putting a tremendous stress upon the earth's existing natural systems - the systems that sustain us all.
As well as depleting our resources and polluting the atmosphere, these additional 'man-made' emissions are perilously adding to the 'greenhouse effect' that makes the earth habitable for us - excessively contributing to a global warming which the scientific evidence now tells us, without urgent action, will rapidly and dangerously upset the stability of the earth's global weather systems. This is climate change.
At South Cambridgeshire District Council, we believe (as many others do) that there is much we can all do to limit the more threatening aspects of climate change by living in a more sustainable fashion, in greater harmony with our environment: a low-carbon lifestyle. A lifestyle where we take conscious daily decisions to manage the use of all the resources that make our lives comfortable and prosperous in ways that are more efficient, kinder to the environment, fair for everyone and, above all sustainable - so that we secure a good quality of life not only for us today but for the future generations of South Cambridgeshire residents as well.
These webpages have been developed in partnership with the National Energy Foundation to focus upon the issue of climate change - what the District Council is doing and what we can all do to start making the important and pressing changes towards genuinely low-carbon living.
1 CLIMATE CHANGE
Everything you need to know about climate change, what is it, how is it affecting us here and now, can we combat it?
2 SOUTH CAMBS PLAN
What is the council doing to promote a low-carbon lifestyle? What other initiatives exist within South Cambridgeshire?
3 ENERGY FACTS
Find out the facts behind our energy consumption, whether it is at home, whilst travelling, at work or when shopping.
4 MAKING IT HAPPEN
Find practical advice for individuals, families, businesses, schools and communities on how to live a low-carbon lifestyle.
