Committee on Climate Change APSE Questionnaire to Local Authorities

APSE is assisting the Committee on Climate Change who would like your input as a local authority respondent so that they can produce a useful report to accompany the sixth carbon budget with a focus on supporting local delivery, strategies, decision making and planning for LAs, cities and regions.

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* 1. How can we make the sixth carbon budget up to 2037 relevant to local authorities, cities and regions?

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* 2. What role do local councils see for themselves in delivering the sixth carbon budget which sets the trajectory towards the 2050 net zero target?

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* 3. What are the main opportunities and levers for significant delivery at a local level?

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* 4. What are the main barriers you face  in planning for and delivering emissions reductions?

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* 5. What successful examples of emissions reductions are being delivered in your area?

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* 6. Do you have information on what actions are needed? Where do you get information & support from now?

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* 7. Do you / how do you take account of the carbon impacts of your decisions?

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* 8. Do you take into account other benefits of decarbonisation? Such as air quality, health, biodiversity or local economic impacts

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* 9. Do you need to know what is going to be delivered at a national level? If so, where do you currently find this out? Do you need metrics from the CCC that show what will happen through action driven nationally (e.g. grid decarbonisation, EV uptake, hydrogen, CCS etc) out towards 2040?

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* 10. What capacity does your LA/City-region/CA/LEP have to tackle these issues; apply for national funding schemes; manage schemes; innovate; develop new business models; or even read about what you can do?

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* 11. What information from the CCC’s report on local delivery would be most useful for local authorities, cities & regions from the CCC (as opposed to APSE, LGA, UK100 and other information) – do you want it to help you practically or provide backing as an evidence base?

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* 12. Would single page decision making trees or flowcarts be helpful?

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* 13. Would timelines with national delivery assumptions and policy deadlines be helpful? YES/NO

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* 14. Would you like information to help make the argument for/aligning action on net zero carbon with other LA  service priorities

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* 15. Would you welcome information themed by emissions sectors: energy, buildings, transport, consumption / waste, land use, green space / green infrastructure, food / food waste? Please tick which ever apply.

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* 16. Would you welcome information themed by roles? Please tick which ever apply:- by role, elected Member, planning department, building control, finance director, CEO, other roles? And other local roles such as what business or NHS or DNO (district network operator) are likely to need to do to deliver the carbon budget?

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* 17. Would you like a ready-reckoner page of figures on actions that deliver the biggest CO2, energy saving impacts and possible cost comparisons?

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* 18. We are thinking about future-casting ‘what do local authority accounts in 2037 or 2050 look like’ to show the different ways costs and revenue might be spent/brought in for a net zero carbon UK – would you find this helpful?

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* 19. Would case studies from a range of local authorities of different sizes, settings and places be helpful?

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* 20. If you would like to put forward a case study please confirm below but please remember to submit your details and GDPR consent below

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* 21. Please tell us your APSE region / country

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* 22. Please indicate your authority / organisation type

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* 23. Please provide your contact details below.

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* 24. For the purposes of GDPR data will be collected in line with APSE's GDPR policy. For the purposes of the survey details and survey results may be shared with the Committee on Climate Change

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