Including 9 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce carbon, and future carbon reduction.
… 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…
… the Council is currently doing to tackle climate change, and there is a call to create a Climate Change Steering Group, to provide representation on decision making platforms across the Council. The ESCCS (2020-2023) will include specific actions to address the views and requests received from this exercise, and future carbon reduction projects will be influenced by this consultation’s output. 2.9…
… impact on climate change are given below: • The current carbon reduction figures are 39.9% reduction across the Council’s estate and 44.6% reduction North Ayrshire wide. The area wide emissions include those from industrial and commercial, domestic, and transport sectors. • Successfully securing approximately £10.5million of funding to provide external wall insulation to 2,231 homes through…
… 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…
… 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…