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Horsham District Council

…. Carbon hotspots: Sources of high levels of carbon emissions, for organisations to focus their carbon reduction efforts on. Carbon insetting: The financing of carbon reduction or sequestration projects that reduce carbon emissions outside of an organisation’s direct operations but within its own supply chain. Carbon neutral: achieving a balance between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere…

… Reduction Action Plan (April 2022 to March 2025) to address its own emissions. In implementing the Action Plan, HDC is leading the District’s decarbonisation efforts and hoping to inspire others to reduce their own carbon emissions. However, the Council’s emissions only represent a small fraction of the District’s carbon footprint. As such, HDC has commissioned a Climate Action Strategy…

…. Firstly, carbon reduction will only become more difficult in the future as the easy-actions are completed and more complex issues remain. Secondly, the longer it takes to start reducing carbon emissions, the more impacts will be experienced from a changing climate. Therefore, urgent action is required to address the high emitting sectors now, give time for more complex decarbonisation issues…

…. 1. Business as usual – Population dependant carbon emissions projections, including grid decarbonisation, assuming per capita consumption is unchanged. Dotted line used where population data is not available, but provides an indicative projection of emissions by 2050. (source: Net Zero Navigator Tool). 2. Carbon Neutral Trajectory (Linear) – The linear carbon reduction rate required…

… carbon neutrality targets in response to the climate crisis; 2030 for direct Council emissions and 2050 for area-wide emissions. ‒ HDC has produced a Carbon Reduction Action Plan to deliver carbon neutrality for its own emissions. ‒ West Sussex County Council and other key local stakeholders such as Southern Water and South Downs National Park are aiming to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030…