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South Hams District Council

… 12 CCC, 2019, 2019 Progress Report to Parliament 13 Calculated using the Council’s 2018/2019 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and the total district CO2 emissions data provided by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Page 10 of 31 carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2030 and this forms one of the two action plans, The Operational Carbon Reduction Plan – Reducing Our…

… ‘Operational Carbon Reduction Plan’, and in terms of what we have done and what we are seeking to do, the story so far is…. Page 11 of 31 Moving forward, Part Two is the framework for our strategy, which will then lead into our action plan which will form a basis for how the Council will assist the area in becoming net-zero by 2050. PART TWO 5. South Hams District Council Climate Change…

… it is interesting to see what the Council plans to do to reduce its carbon emissions (many would expect you to be doing these things anyway as they save money) these actions are not hugely relevant to the wider community and should be kept within the Operational Carbon Reduction Plan.’ ‘The wider community do not see Climate Change as something that the Council alone can/should deal with. We are all…

… Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) stated that around 25% of the world’s species are now at threat of extinction due to habitat loss and the effects of climate change. The Committee on Climate Change recently reported that for the UK to reach ‘carbon net zero’ by 2050, there will have to be a quadrupling of low carbon electricity, major scale carbon capture and storage…

… responsible for using energy and so the plan needs sign up from residents, businesses, the voluntary sector, the smaller Councils, schools and the environmental groups and we perhaps need to have a clearly branded message that acts as an umbrella for all the actions being taken to reduce carbon emissions.’ ‘About a third of the carbon emissions in the District come from transport and so this is an area…