Including 6 closely related terms such as carbon emissions, emissions, and emissions.
… Homes and Buildings 16 Theme 2: How we travel 18 Theme 3: Natural Environment 21 Theme 4: Waste Reduction 24 Theme 5: Sustainable Council 26 Theme 6: Green Economy 31 Theme 7: Everyone together 33 Measuring and reporting 35 The Council’s carbon baseline 35 Kingston Carbon emissions 37 Next Steps 39 Appendices 40 Appendix A - Our Carbon Baseline methodology 40 Appendix B - London and National…
… do recognise the leadership role that we can take. While local authorities have limited direct control over total carbon emissions, they have powers or influence over roughly a third of emissions in their local area . As such, communities are looking to local authorities to help1 generate pace and momentum, which will be absolutely vital to achieving this challenging shared ambition for Kingston…
… will reduce carbon emissions as far as we can and offset what we cannot remove; ● We will achieve carbon neutrality for council operations by 2030; ● We will prioritise green and decentralised energy; ● We will ensure the climate implications of our actions are a key factor in decision-making; ● We will be proactive about bringing funding into the borough; ● We will, in tandem, prepare to protect…
… with biodiversity Better air quality Locally generated, secure energy Community engagement Adaptation While the priority of this plan is a reduction in local carbon emissions in order to limit the impact of warming global temperatures, we must also aim to help places, people, and nature be ready for unavoidable climate change (we call this climate change adaptation). This includes understanding risks…
… involved, volunteer, shape plans, feedback and make suggestions ● Updates on progress ● Links to community groups / organisations / green businesses Page 11 | 44 Developing our collaboration networks To be successful, change behaviours and impact on our carbon emissions it is important that we collaborate with as broad a spectrum of people as possible. Diversity of thought will be a key enabler…