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East Cambridgeshire District Council

… 2 Contents Foreword 3 1 Introduction 5 2 Mitigating Climate Change 11 Cambridgeshire’s Carbon Footprint 13 East Cambridgeshire’s Carbon Footprint 14 East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Carbon Footprint 18 Defining the Scope 18 Excluded Emissions 20 Data Collection 20 Calculating the Baseline 21 Overall Summary 21 3. Carbon Emissions Overall Target and Interim Targets…

… in our gas, electricity, oil and petrol prices, by reducing our fossil fuel consumption (through better home insulation, or driving that little bit less) we can help offset those higher prices as well as be doing our bit for reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. I know all of this is easier said than done. But I am very keen to help, to take actions which not only boost the local…

… District Council endorses these themes and, to assist with coordination of activities with the County Council, will use the same themes in this Plan. They are: • Quantifying our carbon footprints to inform and deliver climate change mitigation through efforts to reduce or prevent carbon emissions; • Adaptation to cope with the existing and future impacts of climate change; • Enhancing…

… must be reached by the end of 2050. Pathway to Net Zero Carbon (Source: Cambridgeshire County Council Climate Change and Environment Strategy, 2022) Carbon Footprints Before an individual, organisation or nation decides what it should do differently to reduce its emissions, it needs to properly understand what its current activities are emitting. This is sometimes known as working…

… of an individual company or organisation, like East Cambridgeshire District Council, then a lot more data collection and analysis is required to determine a robust carbon footprint. The starting point for carbon management is to accurately establish the emissions baseline. The scope of the baseline includes the required types and sources of emissions over a defined timescale. The baseline is a fixed…