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South Hams District Council

… Footprint, the other being The South Hams Climate Change and Biodiversity Action. The operational emissions are broken down into Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; Scope 1 - Direct emissions Activities owned or controlled by your organisation that release emissions straight into the atmosphere. They are direct emissions. Examples of scope 1 emissions include emissions from combustion in owned…

… significant levels of out- commuting to work and below national average employment levels. This raises a significant challenge in responding to Climate Change in our administrative area, connectivity and transportation is a leading contributor to carbon emissions. As a snapshot of total Greenhouse Gas Emissions for South Hams by sector, Exeter University was commissioned to undertake a study of all…

… 12 CCC, 2019, 2019 Progress Report to Parliament 13 Calculated using the Council’s 2018/2019 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and the total district CO2 emissions data provided by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Page 10 of 31 carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2030 and this forms one of the two action plans, The Operational Carbon Reduction Plan – Reducing Our…

… it is interesting to see what the Council plans to do to reduce its carbon emissions (many would expect you to be doing these things anyway as they save money) these actions are not hugely relevant to the wider community and should be kept within the Operational Carbon Reduction Plan.’ ‘The wider community do not see Climate Change as something that the Council alone can/should deal with. We are all…

… responsible for using energy and so the plan needs sign up from residents, businesses, the voluntary sector, the smaller Councils, schools and the environmental groups and we perhaps need to have a clearly branded message that acts as an umbrella for all the actions being taken to reduce carbon emissions.’ ‘About a third of the carbon emissions in the District come from transport and so this is an area…