Our environment and climate change service provides strategic advice to our services to increase their understanding of -
- climate change
- environmental and sustainable development implications
- opportunities resulting from service design
- development and investment
We provide this service to -
- reduce our negative environmental impact
- reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases
- contribute to improving the lives of residents, visitors and business
- address the significant challenge of climate change
We also provide advice to organisations and businesses in Hull to support them in reducing their environmental impact, greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the resilience of their businesses to extreme weather events and climate change.
We support the work of the city in transitioning to a low carbon future making sure that the right infrastructure is developed for the city and that residents have the skills and training required for the new and emerging low carbon economy.
We are also responsible for -
- developing our Environment and Climate Change Strategy
- managing Investors in the Environment (environmental management system)
- developing and reporting on our carbon reduction targets
- climate adaptation risk assessments
Access our Environmental Policy Statement and Investors in the Environment reports