Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… adaptation to businesses online, including local flood risk Sustainability & Climate Change Lead Officer Business resilience manual is available on the Council's website and is disseminated through our networks Completed Economy A5 Promote sign up to the Environment Agency’s flood warning service Sustainability & Climate Change Lead Officer Information is available…
… 1 This document was classified as: OFFICIAL Climate Change Action Plan In July 2019 Darlington Borough Council declared a climate emergency, recognising that urgent action is needed to ensure a safe and prosperous future for us all. A high level strategy was produced and published in July 2020, setting out the challenge…
… levels. At present our emissions are below this trajectory, however, the Climate Change Strategy sets out the current scope of our ambition and explains that there are a number of areas where we currently do not have sufficient data to include emissions in our target, although we aim to include them. As the data becomes more comprehensive, our reported emissions will inevitably rise…
… to offset our emissions. We will make every effort to reduce this gap, but there will inevitably be some residual emissions that we will not be able to remove completely. The plan below includes an action to develop our offsetting strategy. The Climate Change Strategy and this Plan build on achievements already realised by our teams, including upgrades to streetlights and lighting in council…
… buildings. However, there is still much to do if we are to reach our targets and every new project will need to understand the capital and revenue implications of achieving net carbon zero. This includes understanding that carbon savings may occur over time and the future cost of not taking action now. We are including adaptation actions to ensure that we are resilient to the climate change…