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… neutral. It was adopted in August 2020 and is intended to be reviewed and updated every year. In line with the UK Government’s commitments under the Climate Change Act1, this Action Plan is the first major step we are taking to deliver our commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions across the Council’s operations by 2030 and carbon neutrality across the district by 2050 if not sooner…
… that occur as a result of the Council’s own operations. We have calculated the carbon footprint of the Council’s own operations in line with the UK Government’s Environmental Reporting Guidelines13. The footprint is calculated using data for the financial year 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019. The resultant baseline for 2018/19 is summarised as follows: Table 2: Summary of GHG emissions (tonnes CO2e…
… (such as KWh of electricity used) into CO2e emissions. This process is relatively straightforward, using what are known as ‘conversion factors’. The carbon conversion factors used for this Action Plan are the 2018 UK Government published carbon conversion factors (BEIS, 2019b).The Council will use the most up to date conversion factors each time it updates this plan or produces an annual report…
… ........................................................................................................................................ 23 9. Governance, Funding and Engagement ............................................................................................ 23 10. Carbon Offsetting ............................................................................................................................ 25 11. Resilience and Adaptation…
… ............................................................................................................... 26 12. Monitoring and evaluation .............................................................................................................. 26 2 1. Foreword Today we face a global climate emergency which requires us to think beyond ‘business as usual’. But while central government must play a vital role we recognise that many of the solutions will happen…