Swansea achieves UK first in new ecology standard
Swansea Council has become the first UK council to receive recognition against the One Planet Standard for the work it's doing to reduce its ecological footprint.
As well as decarbonisation, this covers buildings, travel, land use and waste as well as biodiversity and the impact on natural resources.
The One Planet Standard also provides a framework for organisations to create a road map towards net zero carbon.
Andrea Lewis, the council's joint deputy leader, said: "This shows how seriously we take our work to aid nature recovery and to tackle climate change. I thank all the staff who were involved in the assessment."
The council has declared both a nature and a climate emergency. It's working to protect biodiversity and tackle climate change.
The One Planet Standard assessor complimented the council on how it has set up council-wide governance and how it is making it "everyone's business" to help reduce the council footprint.
The standard's developer - and One Planet Centre CIC founder-director - David Thorpe, said: "One Planet helps organisations of all types combat climate change and improve biodiversity by adjusting the complete impacts of their activities."
More: https://oneplanetstandard.org/.
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