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Halton Borough Council

… and the world and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming in line with limits recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Halton’s Climate Change Emergency Declaration focuses initially on the Council’s activities but our ambition is to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2040. This plan sets out a series of actions across key themes to allow us to work…

… emissions – since we started to measure our carbon footprint in 2006/2007, overall emissions have reduced from 26338 tonnes of CO2 to 9770 tonnes. From 2009 until 2020. The Council was given guidelines by the government in 2009, which led to an expectation that public bodies would aim to reduce their carbon emissions by 30% of their 2009 carbon emission baseline by 2020. The Council calculated its…

… Halton Borough Council Climate Change Action Plan 2022 - 2027 1 Contents Page A Greener Future for Halton Page 2 Halton’s Commitment to Carbon Reduction Page 4 Halton’s Priorities and Themes Page 6 Measuring the Council’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Page 7 Impacts of Climate Change Page 8 What We’ve Done to Date Page 9 Future Key…

… - with plans and projects having increased the resilience of Halton Council’s operations in the communities and the economy it serves to help minimise the impacts from unavoidable climate change; and Climate just - ensuring that all of Halton and its environment has benefited from this transition. Climate friendly refers to activities, which cut carbon emissions i.e. climate change mitigation. Becoming…

… adaptation; and • Actively removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere (such as by tree planting or direct capture of flue gases) – carbon sequestration. • Securing local economic benefits and social value from the Council moving to net zero carbon - Green Growth. In terms of the climate emergency, the priority has to be on rapid decarbonisation and sequestration because this is what…