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Climate and Environment

Both Worcestershire County Council and Malvern Hills District Council have made formal commitments to becoming ‘carbon neutral’ as soon as possible, and have drawn up action plans towards this.

The Malvern Hills plan ‘Destination Zero’ was first published in January 2020 and progress has been made on the majority of the actions.

A key priority for our local party is to ensure the action plan remains on track and is strengthened.

As your local Green Party, we will:

  • Press to ensure that ‘improving the local environment’ remains a top priority for both the district and county councils.

  • Make constructive suggestions as to how our councils might achieve carbon neutrality in their operations more quickly.

  • Promote and encourage low carbon development and design measures to improve resilience and adaptation to climate change.

  • Support schemes to improve energy efficiency in homes across the district, with a priority for older housing.

  • Promote low carbon means of travel – cycling and walking in particular, but also encouraging more use of our railways. Additionally, support new investment in electric vehicles (including public buses and refuse/recycling freighters) and more local car clubs.

  • Campaign for our councils to establish and run electric bike loan schemes to encourage more people (including their own staff) to make cycling their principal mode of transport.

  • Press our district council to work with local businesses in supporting the transition to greater energy-efficiency in both the domestic and business sectors through the provision of free energy audits and grants for environmentally sustainable projects.

  • Press for increased domestic recycling by introducing separate weekly food waste collection services and by providing better information to residents about what can and cannot be placed in their recycling bins.

  • Support the work of Repair Café: Malvern Hills, and its plans to provide weekly sessions and a mobile service around the district.

  • Work with the district and county councils to produce a biodiversity strategy that will ‘make more space for nature’, for example, by creating more pollinator sites, wetlands, woodland, and wildflower meadows, which will also be important in capturing and storing carbon.