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London Borough of Haringey

… housing by delivering healthier homes through improved energy efficiency standards. 2.6 This Action Plan is about reducing carbon emissions in Haringey and raising awareness about climate change across our borough. For the borough to deliver this ambition Haringey’s residents, visitors, stakeholders and businesses need to share their input into the Action Plan’s delivery. While the Council can…

… government. 6. Background information Zero-carbon: national, regional and local context 6.1 In 2008, the UK agreed the world’s first primary legislation (the Climate Change Act 2008, amended in June 2019), requiring all layers of government to deliver action to reduce carbon emissions, abating 100 per cent of emissions by 2050, from a 1990 baseline. Since the government passed this Act…

… an emergency. 6.5 In 2011, the Council and Community agreed to work to the target of reducing borough carbon emissions by 40% by 2020 from a baseline year of 2005. The Council publishes an Annual Carbon Report which monitors the borough’s performance against this target and sets out the work that has taken place each year to reduce carbon emissions. These initiatives and programmes have been led…

… by a variety of actors - the Council, regional government, our active local resident and business groups, and not-for-profit organisations. Collectively the borough’s work has helped reduce carbon emissions from the borough, and Haringey is on target to meet the 40% reduction by 2020 (also known as 40:20 target). The 2017 data (the latest available dataset) shows that the borough reduced its carbon…

… in relation to reducing carbon emissions to zero:  Zero Carbon: this means the reduction of carbon emissions to zero, without considering removals or offsetting;  Net Zero Carbon: the balancing of carbon emissions against carbon removals or offsetting with the net result being zero;  Carbon neutral: this is effectively the same as net zero carbon. For the purposes of this plan, the term…