Including the closely related term district.
… CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY 2021-2026 2 CONTENTS GLOSSARY Foreword Page 3 1. Introduction Pages 4-9 1.1 Background Page 4 1.2 The Purpose of the Climate Change Strategy Page 5 1.3 Policy Context Page 6 1.4 Ashfield District Council’s Emissions Page 6 1.5 Ashfield District Council’s Carbon Footprint Page 7 1.5.1 Area Wide (District) Emissions Page 8 1.6 Roadmap for reducing Carbon…
… Emissions Page 9 2. Delivery Themes Pages 10-15 2.1 Transport Page 10 2.2 Housing Page 11 2.3 Energy Page 12 2.4 Waste Page 13 2.5 Procured Goods and Services Page 13 2.6 Investments Page 14 2.7 Climate Resilience and Biodiversity Page 14 2.8 Partnership and Collaboration Page 15 3. Summary Page 16 ADC Ashfield District Council CO2 Carbon dioxide CO2e Carbon dioxide equivalent…
… Cllr Jason Zadrozny, Leader of the Council CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY 2021-2026 3 Ashfield District Council formally recognises the scale and urgency of the global challenge from climate change and that local action on global warming can make a difference. In a full Council meeting on September 2019 Ashfield District Council made a commitment to do everything possible to combat climate…
… (Scope 1-2) emissions by 2030, and work to minimise scope 3 emissions (outside the Council’s direct control) by 2050. ▪ Work to influence and assist the wider community emissions to reduce Ashfield’s overall carbon footprint, whereby District wide emissions need to reduce significantly year on year from 2022 to 2050 in order to keep emissions below the carbon budget (the maximum carbon…
… to be emitted by the District) and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, in line with national targets. Alongside reducing the Council’s own emissions, Ashfield District Council recognises the importanceof supporting the decarbonisation of the whole Ashfield District, in line with the UK Government targets of achieving net-zero by 2050 and the international target of keeping global temperature rise well…