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… Develop a strategy to accelerate delivery of Net Zero new build homes within the Borough ahead of UK Government targets and introduction of new Future Homes Standards, including use of Council land to deliver a demonstration project. 2025 Green Growth Officer H3 The Council will work with partners to explore establishing a Green Growth Business Alliance – to secure the local economic…
… climate friendly will mean Halton achieving its net zero carbon target of 2040, 10 years ahead of the current Government target year of 2050. It will also include sequestration measures that are not aimed at reduction but removal of carbon from the air. Climate ready refers to increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change – being climate ready is also known as climate change adaptation…
… emissions – since we started to measure our carbon footprint in 2006/2007, overall emissions have reduced from 26338 tonnes of CO2 to 9770 tonnes. From 2009 until 2020. The Council was given guidelines by the government in 2009, which led to an expectation that public bodies would aim to reduce their carbon emissions by 30% of their 2009 carbon emission baseline by 2020. The Council calculated its…
… baseline carbon emissions in 2009 as 26825 Carbon tonnes. In reporting year 2020, the Council had managed to reduce its carbon emissions to 11354 carbon tonnes. This was a reduction of 57%. From 2017 until 2021. The Government now expects public bodies to reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2031. The new baseline set is now 2017. The Council’s 2017 baseline was 14811 carbon tonnes. In reporting…