Sustainable Haverhill is Haverhill’s community-based initiative to make Haverhill carbon neutral by 2050.
Haverhill Town Council established an Energy and Sustainability Committee at the beginning of 2020. It has been looking at the range of actions and opportunities that exist to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, improving air quality, environment, and biodiversity. These include the initiatives the council can do, such as reducing fossil fuel use for its buildings, and vehicles, reducing its own single-use plastic, creating more green spaces, and encouraging greener transport options. It also promotes what the community can do to reduce their impact on climate change as well as cherish and protect our local environment.
The Council has brought these together into an action plan, which is now underway, and Sustainable Haverhill is central to achieving the goal of being carbon-neutral by 2050.