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… East Cambridgeshire District Council ENVIRONMENT PLAN (YEAR 3) A Strategy And Action Plan To Boost The Environment And Help Mitigate Climate Change June 2022 Watercolour painting by Martha Rickett, Aged 10, and winner of the East Cambridgeshire ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ art competition, May 2022…
… 2 Contents Foreword 3 1 Introduction 5 2 Mitigating Climate Change 11 Cambridgeshire’s Carbon Footprint 13 East Cambridgeshire’s Carbon Footprint 14 East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Carbon Footprint 18 Defining the Scope 18 Excluded Emissions 20 Data Collection 20 Calculating the Baseline 21 Overall Summary 21 3. Carbon Emissions Overall Target and Interim Targets…
… natural environment or reduce our carbon emissions, but which also helps some of the challenges we face by the cost of living rises. Actions which are truly win-win. Reflecting on the past 12 months, my personal highlights include: • The opening of a huge new tree maze in Ely Country Park, designed by youngsters in the district, which is fun and free, as well as helping capture carbon from…
… the near 5,000 trees planted. These trees will also provide homes for a huge variety of birds and other creatures. I can’t think of another project which could capture so many wide-ranging benefits. • Our highly successful orchard programme, which has helped create or regenerate 20 publicly accessible orchards right across the district. Orchards are one of my favourite local landscapes…
… really pleased to hear that, working with the local environment group ‘East Cambs CAN’, we are soon to launch a new independent website which will contain lots of valuable information and signposting to advice, nature activities and events anyone can join. The website is independent of East Cambridgeshire District Council, but we are to grant fund it in order to make a local environment group…