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North Somerset Council

… Business Grants from WECA totalling £113,561 Zero carbon school Planning permission granted to zero carbon school development at Winterstoke Hundred Academy Funding for care homes £400,000 in grants awarded to care homes to reduce emissions Low carbon homes 64 zero carbon homes 52 PassivHaus homes 361 low carbon homes Solar panel installations 292 installations across North Somerset through…

… for areas like procurement and human resources to make our services align with a low carbon future ● Training our staff and councillors in Carbon Literacy to ensure it is a high priority across the council ● Running a solar panel purchasing scheme for residents ● Utilising Green Homes Grants to insulate low-income homes ● Replacing streetlights with LEDs ● Funding energy efficiency…

… WECA Solar Together scheme 1,730 installations through Green Homes Grant, Local Authority Delivery (LAD2) LED streetlights Completion of streetlight upgrades: 18,000 streetlamps, saving 3,800 kWh and over 1,000 tonnes CO2e each year Cycle paths 57 miles of dedicated cycle and shared use paths EV charging 39 chargers installed by North Somerset Council to date 90 public chargers now…

… of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK by 2030. Future Homes Standards – the government has set out plans to radically improve the energy performance of new homes, with low carbon heating and being zero carbon-ready by 2025. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report – shows that human activity is unequivocally driving changes to the climate everywhere…

… mortality monitoring – Summer 2018 (publishing.service.gov.uk) 3 UK Climate Change – Risk Assessment 2017 (publishing.service.gov.uk) Climate change is currently the biggest threat to our civilisation and there is clear evidence to show that it is happening right now, all around the world. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report1, states that human activity has…