Reading Climate Emergency Strategy – have your say
12th June 2025
In June, the Reading Climate Change partnership launched its 2025-2030 Climate Emergency Strategy. Focused on five key challenges: energy and heat, waste, travel and transport, water, nature and green spaces.
This is a successor to the 2020-25 strategy in which a lot has been achieved with limited resources. The new strategy is critically important as we teeter on the brink of overheating our planet. It is also something in which we can all play a part – residents, businesses and the public and voluntary sectors.
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REDA (Reading's Economy and Destination Agency) is a member of the Partnership on which we are represented by REDA’s Chair, Scott Witchalls of Stantec. REDA runs a number of relevant services in the town centre, recycling cardboard and collecting electrical waste. We have also planted a number of reed beds on the River Kennet. In addition to continuing these services we aim to support the Climate Strategy by:-
- engaging businesses in discussion and action on climate change
- creating more investment in training provision in carbon reduction and mitigation, as well as education and skills training to upskill and re-skill the workforce
- championing a ‘green’ town centre in which we are all doing as much as we can
To see the full strategy and action plan, give your views and find out how to get involved, visit the Climate Partnership website.
