Environmental projects in North Yorkshire include increasing use of solar power and active travel.
By Chloe LaversuchProjects to curb climate change in North Yorkshire are expected to get approval from councillors later.
Agriculture produces a third of the county's CO2 emissions and households account for 19%, council data showed. Work has already begun to install LED street lights and trial electric vehicles, but other measures will include increased use of solar power.The climate change strategy will also encourage more people to travel by bicycle or foot, promote better insulation in homes and work on reducing the use of fossil fuels, according to North Yorkshire Council.
It will be introduced after a council consultation received more than 1,700 responses with people "overwhelmingly" in favour of reducing harmful carbon dioxide emissions.Agriculture accounts for a third of North Yorkshire's CO2 emissions, the council saysTransport accounted for 28% of the emissions."Every business, organisation, public sector body and community needs to play its part. By working together, we can ensure we make our climate ambitions a reality for everyone.
In January councillors backed a bid for York and North Yorkshire to become the first carbon negative region in the country, meaning more carbon dioxide emissions would be removed from the atmosphere than are emitted.
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