… ......................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1 Wealden District Council’s Climate Emergency Declaration .................................................................. 8 1.2 Purpose of this study .................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 Drivers for achieving Net Zero Emissions…
… ........................................................................................................................................ 15 2.3 Wealden District Council baseline ...................................................................................................................... 19 2.4 Low carbon technologies in Wealden as of 2019 ..................................................................................... 23 3. Routes to Net Zero: Carbon emissions projections…
… ...................................................................... 35 3.4 Implications ...................................................................................................................................................................... 38 4. Achieving Net Zero: An action plan for Wealden ......................................................................................... 40 4.1 Action plan…
… to develop an evidence-based Climate Emergency Plan that would identify the key actions and intervention measures required to meet the net zero target, describing the scale of impact along with a discussion of practicalities and resource implications. This work is intended to provide the Council with an understanding of their own carbon emissions baseline, as well as that of the District…
… that the baseline transport emissions are a relatively small proportion. Even with all reduction measures applied there will be significant residual CO2e emissions that would require offsetting to achieve net zero carbon. Further work and consultation would be required to identify the most appropriate and cost-effective opportunities, but these could include: • Investing in off-site renewable…