We are committed to limiting further climate change by reducing the amount of CO₂ London produces. The Mayor’s climate change mitigation and energy strategy sets out the programmes and activities underway across London to achieve this.

A strategic approach to climate mitigation

To limit further climate change in London and globally, the Mayor has set a target to reduce London’s CO₂ emissions by 60 per cent of 1990 levels by 2025.

In October 2011, we published Delivering London’s Energy Future: The Mayor’s climate change mitigation and energy strategy. This details the Mayor’s strategic approach to meeting his CO₂ target and securing a low carbon energy supply for London.

Retrofitting London

Delivering London’s Energy Future sets out the work going on to reduce London’s CO₂ emissions. As 80 per cent of London’s buildings will still be standing in 2050, and nearly 80 per cent of CO₂ emissions produced in London are from buildings, retrofitting London is a central focus of the strategy. Retrofitting programmes include:

• RE:NEW – retrofitting London’s homes with energy efficiency measures, and helping Londoners save money on their energy bills.
• RE:FIT – retrofitting London’s public sector buildings, saving millions of pounds every year.
• RE:CONNECT – ten low carbon zones across London aiming to reduce CO₂ emissions by 20% by 2012 across the community.
• Decentralised energy programme – supplying 25 per cent of London’s energy from secure, low carbon local sources.

Delivering London’s Energy Future also details policies and activities underway to reduce CO₂ emissions from new development and transport through the London Plan and the Mayor’s Transport Strategy

Download the documents

To download Delivering London’s Energy Future and supporting documents visit the Delivering London’s Energy Future publication page.