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East Cambridgeshire District Council

… we plan to do over the next 12 months. We’ve created a new Top 20 set of actions we intend to deliver, which includes: • planting more trees on our land (including a new hedge-based maze, designed by you!); • putting in place energy efficiency measures in our own buildings; • investigating whether we can install our own renewable energy infrastructure; • doubling our efforts to work…

… strategy, the Council recognises what is under its direct control and wider influence. The diagram below was developed by the County Council, but is equally applicable to East Cambridgeshire District Council: 10 11 2 Mitigating Climate Change Introduction Mitigation can mean using new technologies and renewable energy, making older equipment more energy efficient, reducing…

… efficiency improvements. This is new money, to spent this year, partly on our own buildings (The Grange, Ely), but the vast majority allocated for low income households in the district; and • New planning policies adopted, which will help make sure developers do their bit for the Natural Environment and Climate Change. But we need to step up our activities, go further and achieve more. And we…

…, the report highlighted the key areas that Councils across Cambridgeshire, and their partners, should consider incorporating into new policy, including: • Decarbonisation of heat and improvements to the energy efficiency of the housing stock; • Implementation of low carbon heating and carbon capture and storage in commercial and industrial buildings; • All cars, vans, buses and motorcycles…

… recently, and launched by the Combined Authority for Cambridgeshire-Peterborough in 2020, the Independent Commission on Climate produced its Initial Recommendations report in March 2021. That report puts a spot light on four key areas of transport, buildings, energy and peat. It also provides overarching recommendations, including the need for more investment into mitigating and adapting…