The results are in: Climate Action Survey 2025
Survey results reveal more electric cars, smarter homes, and rising awareness across the borough.
This year was the second year of running our annual climate action survey, which helps us to understand how residents feel about climate change. In 2025, we got a much larger volume of responses (458) in comparison to the same survey in 2024 (215), and we are seeing some encouraging shifts towards sustainable living across the borough.
In this year’s survey, 95% of respondents felt informed or very well informed about climate change, an increase from 90% in 2024. In 2025, we added a new question to the survey, asking whether it is important that society takes action to tackle climate change, 76% of respondents said yes.
We saw a 6% increase in residents using electric cars, and a 4% increase in smart meter usage! We also saw a 2% increase in homeowners who would consider making changes to their homes to improve energy efficiency, and a 4% increase in residents who understood biodiversity.
These are small, incremental changes, but they help us to assess how successful our strategy has been since it was adopted in July 2025. We’ll run the survey again each year to track changes and tweak our projects to support all residents in reducing their carbon emissions.
A huge thank you to all the residents who took part in the survey!
To find out more about how residents' feedback was incorporated into our Borough Climate Strategy, you can listen to our What We Do podcast with Henry Saunders, Sustainability Manager, on YouTube.
