Including 10 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce carbon, and low carbon.
… and cease the purchase and/or lease of any vehicle that is not low carbon; • Pledge to work towards making Basingstoke & Deane net zero carbon by 2030, ahead of the current 2050 target, ensuring that reducing carbon emissions is embedded in all relevant Council decision making; • Develop carbon reduction pathways, climate compliant strategies and plans, working with the county council…
… strategy will avoid unintentional trade-offs or consequences of policies in one area being detrimental in the other (for example, historic policies that encouraged the take up of diesel vehicles to reduce carbon emissions which have increased air pollution). Although the main focus of the strategy is tackling climate change, it sets out an approach to tackle these issues, as well as providing…
…. • Education on lower carbon lifestyles, such as diet. Page 14 The natural environment: Basingstoke and Deane is an extremely green borough in terms of its natural environment, with over 90% of the borough being undeveloped. These green spaces already lock up thousands of tonnes of carbon a year, as well as providing…
… to embed this agenda within the borough. 9 11 12 Cabinet Member for Environment and Enforcement Cllr Hayley Eachus 13 I am hugely proud that Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council 14 declared a Climate Emergency in 2019, which included the incredibly ambitious targets of becoming carbon neutral as a council by 2025 14 and carbon neutral as a borough by 2030. Although the council has 15…
…), nitrous oxide (N2O) and ‘F gases’. Although these gases are less prevalent than CO2, by volume they have a greater greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) – this takes into account the impact of all the different GHGs, displaying it as the amount of CO2 that would have the same impact. This allows the impact of all the GHGs to be expressed as single number, for simplicity. Most…