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Shetland Islands Council

… the responsibilities of local authorities in target setting, reporting and facilitating local arrangements. The Council has a “Carbon Reduction” strategy for its own built estate and vehicle fleet with associated action plans. There are also substantive strategies and plans for waste management. Other sectors, such as transport and land use have well developed strategies that include objectives around…

… circumstances and needs in the past. For example the Energy Recovery Plant/Shetland Heat Energy and Power, Lerwick District Heating Scheme delivers significant affordable, low emissions heating to many homes and public buildings in Lerwick. Given the abundance of renewable energy sources surrounding Shetland, it should be more than possible to generate other solutions that deliver affordable low carbon…

… transition during that process. There will also be emerging opportunities around decarbonisation, carbon capture and storage and other developments which could continue to utilise oil and gas infrastructure and skills. Even if Hydrocarbons are ultimately phased out Shetland will still be in the middle of the UK’s most productive wind, wave and tidal regimes and these rich renewable resources…

… will have a critical role to play in every low carbon future. The renewables industry will also need much of the marine infrastructure, engineering skills and technical expertise which Shetland already possesses. Appendix 1 Climate Change – Strategic Outline Programme 13 Jan 2020 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 11 We must…

…. (organisational support arrangements) 3.3 Existing arrangements Please state what the existing arrangements are in relation to the programme for which approval is being sought. Climate Change and carbon reduction has been recognised as an issue for a number of years and significant mitigations have been delivered locally and nationally over that period, however much remains to be done…