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South Derbyshire District Council

…. This Climate and Environment Action Plan is in response to the Council’s Climate and Environment Strategy and their aspiration to achieve carbon neutral by 2030 across the Council controlled (in- house) operational activities. It also aims to work with partners to deliver carbon neutrality across South Derbyshire area (District-wide) before the UK Government’s carbon zero target of 2050. The initial…

… Service Plans and the Transformative Actions are delivered in the timeframe suggested. The Council’s delivery of carbon reduction and neutrality will rely heavily on the UK Government investment, funding, and support. One of the main objectives of this Climate and Environment Action Plan is to ensure that all the Service and Transformative actions are worked into ‘ready-made’ decarbonisation…

… Council’s (SDDC) actions to deliver the aspirations of the South Derbyshire Climate and Environment Strategy (STEMS-07-ST2) and the SDDC’s Climate Emergency Declaration of 2019. The Plan is a working document that enables the Council to have fully prepared decarbonisation plans that are updated on a yearly basis to incorporate ongoing UK government strategy, technology advances and to ensure…

… SDDC is prepared for any decarbonisation funding opportunities that support the cost of delivering carbon neutrality. The aspiration to become a carbon neutral Council by 2030 and a carbon zero District before the UK Governments 2050 target will require significant reduction in carbon emissions. The SDDC has two distinct and separate roles to play in this decarbonisation aspiration: 1…

… uses tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) as the measure and the current levels of carbon emissions that result from In-house and District-wide activities. The estimation of in-house emissions is based on the regular scheduled monitoring of emission sources across all Council owned property and fleet vehicles. The District-wide emissions are based on UK Government statistics from…