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Adur District Council

… buildings, AECOM carried out building energy audits on a range of properties owned and operated by Adur & Worthing Councils. The table below summarises the results of these audits, listing the potential intervention areas that could be considered, along with an estimate of the carbon savings that could be achieved. These estimates account for the energy efficiency improvement measures in addition…

… required to realise their carbon neutral ambition. The recommendations cover the following areas: General actions; Supporting grid decarbonisation; Demand reduction; Low carbon heating systems; Building integrated renewable energy generation and storage; Low carbon transport; Offsetting; and Scope 3 emissions. Consideration is given to measures that would directly impact CO2e emissions from…

… ‘carbon budgets’ (limits on emissions over a set time period which act as stepping stones towards the 2050 target), and the development of a climate change adaptation plan.’4 The CCC is an independent statutory body which sets the magnitude of carbon budgets; the Government must prepare policies accordingly. The Paris Climate Agreement The UK ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in November 2016…

… using gas boilers. The Clean Growth Strategy (2017) The UK Clean Growth Strategy8 was published in October 2017 and sets out the Government’s vision for decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions. It includes objectives for increasing generation of energy from renewable sources, increasing the delivery of clean, smart and flexible power and accelerating the shift to low carbon…

…/739460/road-to- zero.pdf 10Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/air-quality-plan-for- nitrogen-dioxide-no2-in-uk-2017 The Future Homes Standard Under the Future Homes Standard, new buildings would be required to meet significantly higher targets for energy efficiency and carbon savings. The Government states that, ‘As part…