…. That the Council aim to reduce its organisational carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030; 2. That the Council commit to working with partners through the Devon Climate Emergency Response Group to aim to reduce the District of South Hams’ carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050 at the latest; 1 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution…
… Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) stated that around 25% of the world’s species are now at threat of extinction due to habitat loss and the effects of climate change. The Committee on Climate Change recently reported that for the UK to reach ‘carbon net zero’ by 2050, there will have to be a quadrupling of low carbon electricity, major scale carbon capture and storage…
… In developing a strategy for how we can help the district become net zero by 2050, we must first understand broadly what the various sector emissions are to direct plan actions more efficiently. South Hams covers an area of 886.5 km² sq. km, the area contains several market and coastal towns with a wider network of towns, villages and hamlets which provide homes for 86221 people. Rural South West Devon…
…://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/living-planet-report-2020 Page 9 of 31 The CCC 2019 Progress Report to Parliament12 points to several priorities for the Government in stepping up their delivery approach to responding to Climate Change, whilst directed at central Government the same aims can apply to us too, these were; 1. Embed net-zero policy across all levels and departments of government…
… 12 CCC, 2019, 2019 Progress Report to Parliament 13 Calculated using the Council’s 2018/2019 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and the total district CO2 emissions data provided by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Page 10 of 31 carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2030 and this forms one of the two action plans, The Operational Carbon Reduction Plan – Reducing Our…