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Wiltshire Council

…, the council acknowledged the climate emergency and committed to seek to make the county of Wiltshire carbon neutral by 2030. To this end, in July 2019 Wiltshire Council pledged as an organisation to become carbon neutral by 2030. A Climate Emergency Task Group was set up, gathering the views of a wide range of stakeholders to provide recommendations on ways to reduce carbon emissions. Wiltshire…

… Committee sixth carbon budget Wiltshire Climate Strategy 2022 - 2027 Photo: Malmesbury aerial view ! International 1.5oC Keep global temperature rise below 2oC while aiming for 1.5oC National 2050 UK to become carbon neutral 2030 68% reduction in carbon emissions 1.5oC Keep UK temperature rise below 2oC while aiming for 1.5oC 10 https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050…

… Wiltshire Council – and Wiltshire’s people – to lead action on climate change. We hope that residents, communities, organisations and business will join us in working towards these shared goals and principles. We will focus on reducing carbon emissions in order to keep global temperature to below 1.5oC. However, given that the effects of climate change are already being felt, we need to plan…

… on substantially reducing emissions, before residual emissions being offset or compensated). Beyond 2030 we will aspire to be fully net zero, meaning that stricter criteria will apply to offsetting, which should be via carbon removal methods such as tree planting and ‘carbon capture and storage’ technologies, and for these to be sufficient we will have reduced emissions almost completely. We will scale…

…% of the county’s total energy demand. Wiltshire has made rapid progress in reducing carbon emissions: while Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and number of dwellings grew in recent years, energy usage and CO2 emissions fell (chart 2). There remains a significant way to go to decarbonise transport, reduce reliance on fossil fuels for heating, and protect and enhance carbon stored in the natural environment…