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Waverley Borough Council

… in the local community. Trajectory The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funded a project to develop Setting City Area Targets and Trajectories for Emissions Reduction (SCATTER) to support local authorities with modeling area emission targets based on scenarios that are consistent with the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement. Using this methodology, it has been…

… emissions associated with remaining below a specific global average temperature Carbon Neutral – All carbon emissions are either eliminated or are offset by counteracting emissions through carbon absorbing projects. To become carbon neutral an organisation should be considering its own direct emissions as well as those created by suppliers. CIL - Community Infrastructure Levy. Charge levied…

… and boroughs across the county, also declared their commitment to act on climate change aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050. Emission baseline and projections Organisational baseline The council has been recording its non-domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 2008. The emissions measured are direct emissions from fuel combustion (Scope 1), indirect emissions from electricity…

… properties (Scope 3) Staff business travel (Scope 3) Contractor Travel (Scope 3) Other emissions (Scope 1 & 2) Figure 1. Organisational emissions https://www.gov.uk/guidance/standard-assessment-procedure Carbon Neutrality Action Plan – V10 Final 10 Borough wide baseline Waverley Borough’s overall carbon footprint was 577 ktCO2e in 2015. This comprises transport…

… emergency. Waverley Borough Council had never before declared a state of emergency of any kind, and this is significant. For this is not merely another policy initiative; it is an attempt to ensure we do everything we can as a council as part of a worldwide movement to reduce carbon emissions to a level which will keep global temperatures in check. In essence, we are doing our bit to avoid…