Devon County Council backs the RSPB’s #ReviveOurWorld campaign

Posted on: 22 September 2020

Devon County Council is backing the RSPB’s #ReviveOurWorld campaign to take action for Nature.

Devon County Council leader John Hart said: “We enjoy a beautiful environment in Devon and we are determined to protect and enhance it for local people and visitors and safeguard it for Nature. There is still a lot to do but we have:

• Committed to be carbon neutral by 2030
• Cut our carbon footprint by nearly half in the last seven years
• Set up the Devon Climate Emergency Response Group to encourage businesses, communities, residents and public bodies in Devon to adopt measures to deliver carbon neutrality
• Worked with schools and colleges on ways to cut carbon emissions
• Helped communities across Devon to manage roadside verges as sanctuaries for pollinating insects, wildflowers and wildlife
• Drawn up a Pollinator Action Plan to fight the decline of bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects. Friends of the Earth said we are ‘leading the way’
• Committed to finding alternatives to single-use plastics across our operations
• Joined the Woodland Trust’s Big Climate Fightback
• Provided 1,800 free trees for landowners and communities are part of a tree-planting campaign with the Woodland Trust
• Improved our record as one of the top recycling counties in the country
• Campaigned for active travel to school to cut car use
• Supported CoBikes to develop an electric bike hire scheme
• Boosted the number of electric car charging points across the county
• Worked with partners to install reed beds at Stover Country Park to filter water, protect biodiversity and attract wildlife
• Installed solar panels to generate electricity at County Hall
• Campaigned with businesses to cut food waste”