Including 4 closely related terms such as planting programme, trees, and tree planting.
… and they include: • Adoption of our first Environmental Charter in April 2021 • Commencement of an ambitious tree planting programme, which is well underway • Installing 150kW of solar PV capacity at our Cromer HQ, which has helped us avoid producing up to 23.2 tonnes of CO2 annually • Obtaining funding for deployment of over 30 electric vehicle (EV) charging points at council sites and taking other measures…
… generation that exceeds the Council’s electricity consumption or tree planting. The Woodland Trust estimates that it costs £25 to offset one tonne of CO2. We are already committed to a tree planting programme, which so far has seen over 70,000 trees planted. We address this and other “nature-based solutions” in more detail in section 6. 15 Box 6: Our promises about Council emissions…
… giveaway’ events during the planting seasons when any resident of North Norfolk can collect a free tree to plant. Following a successful bid to the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles, the Council was awarded funding to develop EV charge-points across Council-owned car parks. There are now 30 Council-owned charge points across the district, and these can be found at North Walsham, Wells-next-the-Sea…
… will not need to pay anything towards the costs, although landlords will pay a minimum of a third of the cost of worksvi. The Council is already investing in sustainable communities. As part of a programme introduced in 2019, we are providing grants of up to £15,000 for green initiatives, including community transport schemes, to parish councils and community groupsvii. We have also run ‘big tree…