… ourselves challenging targets to achieve net zero carbon for the council by 2025 and net zero carbon across the Borough by 2030. 1.2 Part of the declaration requires an annual progress report to be taken to Council in January each year. 1.3 This is the fifth annual report covering the activities undertaken towards achieving our targets during 2023. 1.4 It is very positive to be able…
…. 2.2 One of the first things the newly elected council did after the May 2019 local elections was to develop a Climate and Ecological Emergency declaration motion which was passed unanimously on 26th June 2019. 2.3 Swale has set some of the most ambitious targets nationally to achieve net zero carbon by 2025 as an organisation and by 2030 as a Borough. 2.4 Our policies and strategies…
… are being reviewed and changes are being made as necessary to achieve net zero carbon across the Borough by 2030. A Climate and Ecological Action Plan was developed, as required by the declaration, and was adopted on Earth Day, 22nd April 2020. 2.5 The full Annual Report can be found at Appendix I. Progress highlights 2.6 A steering group of councillors and officers meets…
… successfully requested more renewable energy and energy-efficiency measures to be included in new developments. All new developments are encouraged to achieve a 50% saving in carbon emissions over 2013 building regulations (19% more than current regulations). The emerging Local Plan will bring this down to net zero emissions by 2030. A guide for developers including examples of how the 50% reduction…
… learn new skills increasing their employability on release and economically vulnerable people get access to bikes which may make travel to work more viable and improve health. Looking forward 2.21 In 2019 we set very ambitious targets to reach net zero. This drove us to start on projects which might have been delayed otherwise – tree planting, LED roll out, car clubs, EV charging…