Camden Council
Camden Council is bringing communities into the local fight on climate change.
Camden Council has placed community engagement at the heart of its plans to tackle the climate emergency, and work closely with local people on climate action that is making a difference in their communities. They convened a Citizens’ Assembly in 2019 to ensure that the community was central in how they set out their 17-point Climate Action Plan, which came into force in 2020.
The Camden Climate Investment allowed anyone get involved and support Camden’s ambitious borough-wide programme of climate action, and support some of the projects that will help the council achieve its target of making Camden a zero-carbon borough by 2030.
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How investors' money has been used
Projects funded include new Healthy School Streets on Belsize Lane and Lyndhurst Gardens. This investment bring the total number of Healthy School Street schemes in the borough to 24, covering 30 schools. Many schools suffer from parking, traffic congestion, road danger and air quality issues immediately outside their school, which has negative impacts on school children and their parents/carers, teachers, and of course local residents.
The Council has also invested in clean transportation, with 8 new fast EV charging points. Installation was completed in March 2023 and the charge points are now operational in the Fortune Green, Hampstead Town, Highgate and Regent’s Park wards. The second phase is to provide match funding for a further 32 EV chargers, which was expected to be implemented in April 2025. Money raised was also used to help fund solar power at Henderson Court, NW3 (the installation process is currently underway), as well as the replacement of Camden’s fleet of diesel and petrol vehicles with greener alternatives.
Building a greener future for their borough
In 2019, Camden declared a climate and ecological emergency, recognising the threat of climate change and the irreversible damage to our planet it may cause. They also held their first Citizen’s Assembly on the climate crisis and the resulting 17 recommendations shaped Camden's first Climate Action Plan for 2020 - 2025.
This plan has driven bold action across the borough over the past five years. In 2025 a new Climate Action Plan for 2026 to 2030 was developed - aiming to reduce emissions, whilst building the borough's resilience, and protecting those most vulnerable, to the impacts of the changing climate. Find out more about this new plan and how we the council is tackling the climate crisis.
