The Environment Theme Group has two key themes:
Cleaner, greener local streets and open spaces
Long-term outcomes:
- Coventry people will see their streets, neighbourhoods, parks and open spaces as more attractive and enjoyable places to be
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Short-term priorities:
- Improve street cleanliness in Coventry, especially in neighbourhoods involved in the New Deal for
Communities and Your Neighbourhood Matters programmes and in areas of high density housing |
- Reduce fly-tipping in problem areas of the city
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- Improve the quality of open spaces including car parks, hedgerows and verges
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- Improve the quality and use of local parks and open spaces
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Improving Coventry's environment and tackling climate change
Long -term outcomes:
- Coventry's carbon footprint will have been reduced
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- Coventry will be making more sustainable use of natural resources - less energy and water will be used, less waste and pollution will be produced, more waste will be recycled
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- Coventry will be better prepared for the impacts of climate change
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Short-term priorities:
- Reduce CO2 emissions produced by Coventry City Council and the wider community supported by robust systems of measuring, managing and monitoring - learn from this and disseminate good practise across the Coventry Partnership
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- Improve understanding and awareness among local people of how they can adopt more sustainable lifestyles through education, advice and support
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- Proactively encourage individuals and organisations to adopt behaviours that will minimise their impact on climate change, and provide specific guidance to help them do so
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- "Climate-proof" Coventry's key strategies and plans
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- Develop and start to implement the City's Climate Change Strategy
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- Develop and start to implement the City's waste strategy
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The Environment Theme Group has representatives from Coventry City Council’s City Services, Groundwork, West Midlands Fire Service, Agenda 21, anti-social behaviour officer and other partners.
Click here for details of Coventry's Climate Change Strategy
Click here to download Coventry's Climate Change Strategy
For more information about this theme group and to see minutes of previous meetings visit Coventry Partnership's 
webpage.
