Climate change is emerging as one of the major challenges facing the world in the 21st century, and local government has a pivotal role to play in combating greenhouse gas emissions. Meeting this challenge is a key priority for Richmond upon Thames LBC, and earlier this year, we adopted a strategy which set out a range of measures to address: its causes and impacts in the borough. Our approach is to implement a series of projects, some of which have a self-evident effect on reducing the council's own carbon footprint, and others which act more as psychological drivers of behavioural change.
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