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… little to do. Others may be more difficult and expensive. Some will be impossible without support or funding by national government or Surrey County Council. We know achieving our goal will be difficult and costly, and it will require hard choices. This is why we have declared a climate emergency. An emergency requires us to act urgently and to make an extraordinary effort. That is what meeting…
… global warming. In the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) held in Glasgow, 200 countries agreed to policies that aim to prevent global temperatures exceeding a 1.5oC rise. 2.2: National In 2008, the UK government passed the Climate Change Act4. The Act committed the UK to lower net greenhouse gases by 80% or more of the 1990 emission baseline. The Act also established a Climate Change…
… tenants with regards to energy consumption and sustainability. In October 2021, the UK Government published the Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener6 which introduced policies and proposals for the decarbonisation of the UK by 2050. The strategy set out a pathway and potential funding streams for the retrofitting of existing social housing to achieve net- zero within this timescale. Due…
… to the scale and complexity of ensuring GBC’s social housing stock achieves net-zero, and due to the timescales of available funding through various funding opportunities, the HRA Business Plan aligns with the UK Governments Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener and works towards achieving net-zero across our social housing stock by the 2050 target. The UK Governments Net Zero Strategy: Build Back…
… at its current pace, borough emissions will not achieve the National Government’s target to reach net zero by 2050. 4.4.2: Additional information: Grid decarbonisation The National Grid is the infrastructure used to transport electricity generated from power stations and plants across the UK to consumers. Decarbonisation of the grid is the actions taken to reduce the amount of CO2e emissions…