… JN2425.005 Net Zero Carbon Plan 2023-25 Net Zero Carbon Plan County Council Emissions 2024-2025 2 Net Zero Carbon Plan – County Council Emissions 2024 - 2025 Contents 1 Foreword 3 2 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4 3 Introduction 5 4 Worcestershire County Council’s Carbon Emissions 8…
… 5 The Council’s Approach to Net Zero 13 6 The Council’s Estate – Property & Land 15 7 Street Lighting and Traffic Signals 17 8 Fleet Vehicles 19 9 Staff Business Travel 20 10 Municipal Waste Disposal 22 11 Supply Chain 24 12 Staff and Member Awareness 26 13 Carbon Sequestration and Offsetting 27 14 Resources 29 15…
… Governance 30 Annex 1 32 Annex 2 34 3 Net Zero Carbon Plan – County Council Emissions 2024 - 2025 1 Foreword We want to play our role and give leadership through the Council’s updated Net Zero Carbon Plan, which highlights how we, Worcestershire County Council, aim to reduce our own carbon emissions from Council operations and activities to net zero by 2050…
… this Net Zero Carbon plan is a key theme. We recognise the connectivity between our Net Zero commitments and other work areas and the Environmental Improvement Plan is pivotal in bringing these together under one umbrella. Impacts from the Environment Act 2021 like our Local Nature Recovery Strategy and forthcoming changes in waste and resource efficiency. The Council declared a Climate Emergency…
… in July 2021 and as part of this, a Net Zero Carbon Member Advisory Group (MAG) was established. The MAG expanded its mandate in January 2022 to include biodiversity as the Council recognises the clear link between climate change, reducing carbon emissions and protecting biodiversity. The group, which I chair, is exploring, and seeking to develop, the role of the County Council in tackling climate…