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Swindon Borough Council

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… not include a statutory duty for local authorities to develop plans and deliver cuts in line with the UK carbon budgets (statutory cap on total GHG emissions). Nor did it set local authorities their own carbon budgets.  But alongside its work on the Sixth Carbon Budget, the Climate Change Committee (CCC)9 published an accompanying report in 2020 on the role of local authorities in delivering…

… held between November 2020 and January 2021. 10 An independent report for the Climate Change Committee: Local Authorities and the Sixth Carbon Budget (December 2020) https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Local-Authorities-and-the-Sixth-Carbon-Budget.pdf 11 Council Agenda and Minutes - 23rd January 2020: http://ww5…

…) in Glasgow. Countries are being asked to come forward with ambitious 2030 GHG emission reduction targets that align with reaching net zero by the middle of the century. UK context  Carbon budgets were introduced in the UK under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Each carbon budget provides a five-year, statutory cap on total GHG emissions, which should not be exceeded, in order to meet the UK’s…

… Farm solar park, coincided with the launch of the Abundance ISA, making it the UK’s first ever ISA-eligible solar bond. Context for this first Net Zero Emissions Action Plan  In January 2020, the Council passed a motion11 that: “Commits the Council to an 80 per cent reduction in the council`s corporate carbon emissions no later than 2030, striving towards 100 per cent with carbon…

…;MId=9909 https://ww5.swindon.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=285&MId=10130  For clarity and consistency in our terminology, we are moving away from using “carbon reduction” and “carbon emissions”, to talk more precisely about reducing all GHG emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2e).  This first iteration of the Net Zero Emissions Plan has…

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