Including 8 closely related terms such as become carbon, lower carbon, and carbon management.
… generations and play our part in promoting biodiversity as well as making our contribution to preventing the extremely serious consequences of severe climate change through carbon reduction strategies. Waverley Borough Council’s challenge is to play its part in local, regional, national and international efforts to become carbon neutral and support the efforts of households, businesses…
…, a service provider and a community leader, has a key role in leading Waverley’s communities towards sustainable and lower carbon lifestyles and enabling moves to adopt them. As outlined above, in September 2019 WBC declared a Climate Emergency and committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030. To meet this objective the council will: take into account the potential impact on the climate…
… a political and organisational commitment to embed carbon reduction into all we do, consider energy efficiency at the start of projects, identify opportunities and plan ahead and implement robust data collection. 5 Introduction The UK Climate Change Act 2008 sets a statutory target to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from 1990 figures by 2050. The Intergovernmental…
… to address these issues together with an action plan, specifying year on year milestones and metrics to show progress towards achieving the goal of carbon neutrality by 2030 noting any additional costs that might be involved. The adoption of the Carbon Management Plan in 2010 and the Energy Efficiency Plan in 2015 took the council through a carbon reduction journey. Since 2008 we 10…
… the progress and identify new and emerging priorities. Results will be published on the council’s website. 11 Year on Year Targets Carbon reduction will be reviewed annually to monitor progress against the net zero carbon target by 2030. Climate Resilience Climate Change is likely to lead to an increase in extreme weather patterns. Winters are expected to be wetter with high…