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North Ayrshire Council

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… Ayrshire Council has been pro-active in reducing carbon emissions since establishing the Carbon Management Plan in 2005. Subsequently, the first Environmental Sustainability & Climate Change Strategy (ESCCS) was published in 2014 and was updated in 2017. 2.5 The ESCCS 2017-2020 builds on the success of the first strategy and sets an area wide target to reduce carbon emissions by 40…

… behaviours in energy, waste and transport. 2.14 Further areas being developed for incorporation into the ESCCS (2020-2023) include expanding the Council’s work on generating renewable energy. This has the potential to meet a variety of Council objectives, specifically reducing carbon emissions, tackling fuel poverty, generating income and supporting local jobs and businesses. A previous action…

… to a reduction of almost 900,000 miles driven per year on business. An increasing number of miles actually driven are now being facilitated by the pool of low emission and electric vehicles. This has contributed to a significant carbon emissions reduction. • Installing a number of publicly accessible electric vehicle charge points to support and encourage the uptake of electric vehicles across North…

… Conference, and work is underway within primary schools to gather opinion through the Primary School Energy Challenge project. Feedback received so far from the consultation affirms respondents’ views that climate change is a serious issue, and that setting a target to achieve net-zero carbon emission by 2045 is not ambitious enough. Several respondents would welcome information on what…

… Following initial review of the ongoing consultation, it is proposed that the Council sets the target year to achieve net-zero carbon emissions as 2030. This is an ambitious goal based on emission data available and is within the 10-year timeframe set by the IPCC to prevent irreversible climate change. Based on current annual reduction trends a 73% reduction in emissions is projected by 2030 (based…

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