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Winchester City Council

… PLAN This Action Plan will focus on how the council aims to achieve carbon neutrality and; • Actions it will take to reduce/eliminate or offset its own carbon emissions. • Actions it can take to support and help others; individuals, businesses, agencies and organisations, to take action so that the district becomes carbon neutral. • Actions that promote climate resilience including…

… biodiversity; waste and recycling, planning and development; and commerce and economy. As such its focus is on carbon emission reduction and elimination, with mitigation /off setting used as a means to balance carbon emissions to achieve net zero gain. The baseline year of 2017 is used as this the most currently available data and gives the council’s carbon emissions as 4,187 tonnes CO2e…

… to compensate for the emissions they cannot avoid, by supporting projects that reduce emissions somewhere else. Reducing carbon emissions can include actions such as energy efficiency measures that reduce the demand for heating. Eliminating carbon emissions can be achieved through the use of renewable energy that does not produce any carbon emissions and making changes to industrial…

…, 2 and 3 GHG Protocol. Indirect emissions result from the council’s upstream and downstream activities. These are typically from outsourced/contract manufacturing, and products and services offered by the council. Indirect emissions correspond to scope 3 GHG Protocol (excluding employee business which is included in reporting council direct emissions). To measure progress to become carbon…

… neutral the council will calculate its gross emissions and apply emission reductions to produce a net CO2e tonne figure. This is known as a carbon footprint (our baseline year is 2017). 8 FACTS SOURCE OF COUNCIL CARBON EMISSIONS (SOURCE CARBON FOOTPRINT REPORT) 1,494 tonnes CO2eTRANSPORT TOTAL 4,187 tonnes CO2e 1,004 tonnes CO2eSITE GAS 1,652 tonnes CO2eSITE ELECTRIC TRANSPORT 46…