Including the closely related term district.
… Ref: STEMS-07-ST2-F1 Rev: 03 July 2022 South Derbyshire District Council Climate and Environment Action Plan 2021-30 Document Ref: STEMS-07-ST2-F1 Rev:03 Date: July 2022 Page | 2 | South Derbyshire Our Environment, Our People, Our Future Executive Summary…
…. This Climate and Environment Action Plan is in response to the Council’s Climate and Environment Strategy and their aspiration to achieve carbon neutral by 2030 across the Council controlled (in- house) operational activities. It also aims to work with partners to deliver carbon neutrality across South Derbyshire area (District-wide) before the UK Government’s carbon zero target of 2050. The initial…
… part of this plan focuses on estimating of the Council’s carbon emission baselines, based on the 2018/19 levels that result from Council-controlled activities (in-house emissions) and secondly resulting from the carbon emitting activities across the South Derbyshire area (District-wide emissions). The Council in-house annual emission baseline is estimated at 2,500 tC02e and the District-wide…
… Service Plan Actions – these actions are led by the Council’s Services and predominately support, influence and lead to behaviour change across In-house activities resulting in smaller carbon emission reductions. Annual District-wide Service Plan Actions – these actions are led by the Council’s Services and support other partners to reduce District-wide carbon emissions across South Derbyshire…
…. One of the major challenges is the cost of these actions, especially Transformative Actions that will deliver most of the carbon neutral journey to 2030. The indicative cumulative decarbonisation costs for all in-house actions over and above ‘business as usual’ expense is estimated to be between £5.8 and £7 million. The indicative financial cost to the Council for reducing the District-wide…