Including the closely related terms trees, tree planting, and planting.
… of the Climate Change Plan to ensure it remains relevant and aligns with the scale of the challenge and opportunities that are presented. Bolsover Community Woodlands Project – Working with the Woodland Trust to bring about significant tree planting across the District to help reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere through the process of carbon sequestration, i.e. trees absorbing carbon…
… dioxide that is already in the atmosphere as they grow. A funding bid for approximately £250,000 from the Woodland Trust’s Emergency Tree Fund has been successful and this will lead to a flagship Community Woodland (approximately 27,500 trees) being created on former colliery land to the south of Creswell, in addition to several smaller tree planting projects, from 2021 onwards. 1.12…
… to REGOs for Electricity, you can purchase renewable gas from the supplier, this comes in the form of Biogas. Biogas will produce carbon dioxide, but as with https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/about-ccs/ biomass, it is produced from the anaerobic digestion of plant and animal waste that can again be reabsorbed by growing plants/trees. The cost of Biogas is more volatile than…
… on appropriate plant equipment situated at The Arc which offer an energy saving with payback for this investment being achieved in a couple of years and achieve an annual carbon reduction of 12,100kg (12.1 tonnes). Theme 2 – Renewable Energy 1.3 As outlined in the Council’s Recovery Plan and previously discussed at the Climate Change Group, Property and Estates are about to commission a full…
… of battery pack. Further consideration of battery hand tools will be given ‘as and when’ operational plant falls due for replacement and suitability\availability of battery\electric powered tools. Theme 4 – Transport 1.5 Covid19 Travel - While the seismic changes in how the Council operates were obviously not planned, the disaster recovery planning and infrastructure allowed the Council…