Councils approve airport expansions, oil drilling and motorways despite pledges to hit net zero by 2030 🔴 Exclusive from luciemheath
Martin Wilby, Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure at Norfolk County Council, toldthe new road project will bring lots of benefits for the local area, including increased productivity and profitability for businesses, improvements in air quality in residential areas, and shortened journey times, including for ambulances.
“Environmentally and financially, their proposed link road is unaffordable and would take the county in completely the wrong direction.” The council has a target to become net zero within its own operations by 2030, while it aims to make the entire county net zero by 2050, in line with the Government’s target for the UK as a whole.
In 2021, the council approved plans to allow Southampton Airport to extend its runway to attract airlines that fly larger planes and increase passenger numbers.Declared a climate emergency in 2019 and has a target for the council to become net zero by 2030. Alongside Government, councils have an important role to play in the UK’s transition towards net zero. The Committee on Climate Change, the independent body that advises the Government on climate, has said local authorities have powers or influence over roughly a third of emissions in their local area.
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