Southwark Council
Help Southwark take local climate action to make its environment clean, green and healthy.
Southwark Council is leading the way with climate action that makes its air cleaner, its borough greener and lives healthier. It has an ambitious strategy and action plan to transform Southwark into a carbon neutral borough by 2030. Its vision aims to reshape the borough into a better place for everyone, delivering improvements in health, raising the standard of homes, creating good green jobs and strengthening its communities.
The council has cut emissions by 23% since 2018 by working with communities to improve homes, streets and green spaces. This includes a number of climate projects, from an innovative heat pump programme for council housing estates, through to replacing all 17,000 streetlight light bulbs with LEDs. Now it wants to accelerate its work, and Southwark Green Investment is a chance for everyone to get involved. The council wants to raise £6m by 2030 through a series of investments, to fund a range of projects from its climate programme..
We're taking urgent action in Southwark to tackle the climate emergency – but we know the scale of the challenge means we can't do it alone. Southwark Green Investment is your chance to join us as we transform the borough.
Every investment, from as little as £5, will not only play its part in helping us hit our ambitious net-zero emissions target, but it will also help us to create a greener, fairer and safer borough.
Invest in Southwark Green Investment today
How your money is being used
Southwark Green Investment has already funded projects that save residents money, clean its air and protect residents from overheating and flooding. These include acceleration of its successful LED lighting programme, which has now replaced all 17,000 streetlights in the borough – saving the council energy and money. It also helped fund major investment in energy efficiency at leisure centres, with a new building management system and solar panels for Peckham Pulse leisure centre, and Crampton Primary School in Walworth has had energy efficiency upgrades.
Your investment has also funded community-led biodiversity projects across the borough, particularly in unused grey spaces on housing estates, including a scheme in the Kirby Estate to de-pave an old bin storage area to create the new Moreton Gate Nature Garden. It has also supported the green economy by investing in an expansion of Library of Things with two new sites in the borough – in East Dulwich and Elephant and Castle, and funded installation of 21 new cycle hangars to encourage active, low carbon travel.
Taking action to reduce carbon emissions to zero
Southwark Council are working to make Southwark carbon neutral by 2030. It has a detailed climate change strategy (PDF, 846.14 KB) and action plan which guides this work. It has already made good progress - in the past 3 years the borough’s emissions reduced by 23%, and emissions from the council’s buildings and vehicles are down by 18%. And it remains committed to taking action across the community to ensure that they are building a just response to climate chance that ensures no one is left behind.
