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Arun District Council

…, to help improve our woodland habitats and tree coverage within the district using 'Better Care' funding to help some of our residents who live in park homes to install insulation, resulting in less energy being wasted in lost heat, reducing carbon emissions and lowering energy bills to help combat fuel poverty   aiming to ‘decarbonise’ all our council properties entirely by 2050 by improving…

… by undertaking building audits and a decarbonisation plan on the Arun Leisure Centre and the Littlehampton Wave implementing behavioural change, reducing emissions is a council-wide responsibility, so we have been providing training to all of our staff to ensure sustainability is embedded into everything we do, our training has included:  Carbon Literacy Training, with additional opportunities being carried…

… on through to 2024  internal e-learning modules that cover both climate change and sustainability increase our understanding of our procurement and its processes as this is the largest single emitter for us, being responsible for roughly 91% of our total emissions  We will continue to update you as we take steps to achieve our goals. For more information please have a read of our climate action…

… declared a climate emergency on 15 January 2020.  As a council, we pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030. Carbon neutral refers to achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. This is achieved by balancing our emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal from the atmosphere via carbon offsetting, sequestration and eliminating emissions from society completely.  A climate change and sustainability…

… manager has recently been appointed to lead this work. Our carbon neutral strategy We have now produced a carbon neutral strategy. This strategy makes fighting climate change a guiding principle in our decision making as an organisation. It details our carbon reduction targets, sets our emission baselines and also provides a direction of travel. Read our carbon…