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London Borough of Harrow

… for skilled, meaningful work that directly benefits local communities and contributes to low carbon outcomes. Carbon Neutrality, Sequestration and Offsetting 3.13 Achieving carbon neutrality for an organisation or geographic area, refers to reducing the carbon emissions associated with the human activity taking place there (principally those arising from the burning of fossil fuels…

… initiatives also have significant potential to prevent flood risks and enhance biodiversity, helping to restore the damaged and degraded ecosystems upon which we all depend for clean air, water and food. It is important to be clear that there is not enough land in Harrow, by some order of magnitude, to sequester all of the borough’s current carbon emissions. Nevertheless given Harrow’s good overall…

…: indirect emissions, not included in Scope 2, that are generated outside the area but as a result of activity taking place within the area (eg embedded carbon emissions in goods and services consumed and international transport. These are also commonly referred to as consumption emissions). The Borough’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 Emissions 3.17 The following charts illustrate the borough’s…

… Taken together, the scale of the borough’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 current emissions (at over 650,000 tonnes of CO2e), show the level and pace of change that will be required across the borough in order to transition to a carbon neutral position. The next phase of work will be to map carbon reduction pathways to 2030 for both the organisation and the borough as a whole, which will help determine…

… Plan, all major residential developments (i.e. 10 or more dwellings) are expected to achieve net zero carbon development. As a minimum there needs to be at least a 35% reduction in CO2 emissions (relative to the Building Regulations) achieved through on-site measures as part of the actual development (for example, energy efficient lights, triple glazing, low carbon heating systems, solar PV…