Our Climate Plan
Sustainability is a huge agenda which permeates and affects everything that we do in policing, and we have a responsibility to embrace the principles of sustainability, including reducing our negative environmental impacts, and enhancing our positive social contributions, and ensure they are considered and embedded throughout all that we do.
Sustainability is wide reaching and affects the way we engage with our communities, our partners, and our supply chains; the way we manage our resources, our built estate and our fleet, and the way we support and develop our workforce.
Our in-force sustainability team are constantly working with our partners and key organisations across the region and nationally, identifying opportunities to collaborate and contribute towards our sustainability goals.
Sustainability goals
As a large organisation and employer in South Yorkshire, we have a long-standing commitment to sustainability. As part of this commitment, we have adopted seven of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, outlining key ambitions and targets we want to achieve in the force.
Our sustainability development goals are below:
- Good health and wellbeing
- Quality education
- Reduced inequalities
- Responsible consumption and production
- Climate action
- Partnership for the goals
- Peace, justice and strong institutions
Climate Plan
Led by the in-force sustainability team, working together with a range of key delivery partners, the implementation of the strategy involves engagement at all levels of the force, embedding sustainability in everything that we do, and reporting our progress.
One of our priorities is Climate Action and we have made a commitment to reduce our carbon emissions and become a Net Zero force by 2050.
We recognise that climate change will have a significant impact on the communities that we serve and are committed to playing an active part to help tackle this agenda. We are taking action to achieve climate change mitigation by reducing our force and supply chain carbon emissions, and climate change adaptation by preparing for the impacts associated with changes in our climatic system, including increased extreme weather events and flooding. Our climate plan is the foundation from which to build our Net Zero roadmap, it demonstrates our willingness to decarbonise and work together with key stakeholders to achieve this and it is, therefore, founded on engagement and focused on action and
The document does not contain all the answers or highlight all the changes and investment required to meet the decarbonisation challenge, but outlines key themes, work streams and activities which will support the achievement of our targets.