Including the closely related terms trees, planting, and tree planting.
… at approximately £1.6bn. The investment required in realising these scenarios would not only result in green infrastructure but could create around 11,000 jobs within Northumberland across many sectors and skill levels ranging from tree planting to highly skilled construction and engineering jobs. Beyond 2030 The Council understands that, in order to realise the national ambition of a net-zero UK by 2050…
…: Decarbonising our Council fleet Installing 12 additional public EV charging points Giving away 15,000 free trees to households and community groups Engaging our Communities, Businesses and Staff The delivery of our climate change target is dependent on the whole County pulling together, to that effect we will be running several community engagement schemes this year. These include: Community…
… Climate Champions – we will provide community groups with the knowledge, training and toolkits necessary to develop their own local climate change action plans Free Tree Scheme – we will be running this popular scheme again with the aim of giving away a free tree for every household in Northumberland Carbon literacy training will be delivered to our staff New Capital Projects We plan…
…, emissions have reduced substantially since 2005 however, the rate of decrease since 2013 has been slowing. Much of the decrease came as a result of the closure of one key industrial installation – the Alcan smelter which has now been repurposed as a biomass power plant. 3 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-local-authority-and-regional-carbon-dioxide-emissions-national- statistics-2005…