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Climate Change
Climate change and the primose promise
Here at Maidstone Borough Council we have
issued every seven year old in the borough with a primrose promise
– the promise that by the time they leave primary school the
council will be carbon neutral (2010).
This means that we have made positive changes
to the way we operate to reduce the bad things we, and others, have
done or are doing to the environment.
The floods of 2000, the record heat wave of
2003 and the two year drought (2003-5) demonstrated that climate
change is one of our biggest challenges. We have to change the way
we do things for the future of Maidstone and the planet.
Maidstone is at the heart of the most
vulnerable part of the UK to climate change. We are predicted to
have much hotter, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters with
increase numbers of extreme weather incidents such as flash
flooding.
As well as the primrose promise, the council
has prepared a detailed plan of what we need to do over the next
five years to reduce waste, conserve and recycle, reduce emissions,
be energy efficient and create a sustainable environment – for us,
our children and our children’s children.
Click on the links below to find out more: