Camden Climate Action Plan- New Carbon Factors- Community Energy

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Camden Climate Change Alliance

News and updates
July 2020

Camden's New Climate Action Plan 2020-2025

Following Camden’s Citizens’ Assembly on the Climate Crisis last year, Camden has launched its Climate Action Plan, an ambitious five-year programme of projects and initiatives that brings to life a vision of a zero-carbon borough by 2030. This is the first of two plans.

The plan is themed around People, Places, Buildings and Organisations and delivers on the 17 Citizens’ Assembly recommendations.

Achieving these goals will require an effort by all local residents and businesses. The council aspires to lead by example, but collaboration and engagement with the people and organisations of Camden is even more important.

To ensure the continuation of citizen involvement from the assembly, a new citizen panel has been set up to help review Camden’s progress against the Climate Action Plan.

Please view the Climate Action Plan here.

For the full article and details on how to apply for the new Camden Climate Citizen Panel, click here.

Take Part in the UK's Biggest Cycle Commuting Event

This year's cycle to work day will take place Thursday 6 August.

All the cycling action will be happening in the free Love to Ride online community.

You can sign up with Facebook, Strava or simply by entering your details, and then connecting to a smartphone app so you can log your rides. There will also be seven weekly cycling challenges.

Everyone taking part in each challenge and logging their ride on Love to Ride will be entered into a draw to win some incredible prizes.

The Camden Climate Action Plan commits to improve cycling in the borough by increasing the number of segregated cycle lanes.

The CCCA recently held an event on Safer and Sustainable Travel. Click here to learn more.

Furthermore, Camden are offering a free bicycle loan scheme for people in Camden who want to experience the advantages of cycling, but have not yet decided to buy a bike of their own.

Click here to find out more.

Camden in Bloom- Taking Pride in Our Neighbourhoods

Camden in Bloom aims to encourage residents, businesses and community groups to take pride in their neighbourhood and create a more pleasant place to live and work.

The competition is now open and closes on Sunday 31 July. Click here to find out how to enter.

The organisers are currently inviting businesses to become sponsors.

Sponsors will benefit from inclusion in the social media campaign throughout the competition which is broadcast to over 27,000 followers, as well as promotion on the council website and your logo on marketing materials and certificates.

To get involved, contact here

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Power Up North London- Call for Partners

Following a successful community share offer which raised £46,000, 48kW of solar panels were installed at Hampstead School at the start of March.

The project was delivered by local community energy group, Power Up North London, in collaboration with the school and Camden Council.

PUNL have successfully raised £150k of crowdfunding and over £100k of grant funding to install solar panels on six buildings in North London including a school, church, GP surgery, city farm and golf club.

The community business are seeking to collaborate with businesses and organisations in Camden.

Potential partnerships on projects could include:

Technical assistance
Partnership on new projects
Funding and finance
Provision of pro bono advice
Events

Additionally, the Camden Climate Fund can provide up to 50% of costs to reduce the carbon used in our homes, businesses and community spaces.

Click here to read the full article

FutureLearn- Learn New Skills Online With Top Educators

We would like to welcome our newest member, FutureLearn to the CCCA.

FutureLearn is a digital education platform which offers courses and degrees from leading universities and organisations.

This includes a range of nature, environment and sustainability courses – from topics like creating your own upcycling business, to humanitarian responses to climate change, to new energy technologies.

These courses are delivered by experts and are designed to help businesses and individuals understand the causes and impact of climate change.

Click here for more information.

COVID Support

Calculating Your Carbon Footprint- 2020 Conversion Factors

Carbon conversion factors for 2020 have recently been released by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Find the highlights below. The methodology for determining carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) remains the same year on year except where changes are outlined.

Electricity

As the main UK electricity grid continues to decarbonise with the increase in use of renewable sources, the carbon factor has decreased again this year by 8.79%.

Main changes

Cars
The methodology has been amended for the calculation of emission factors for both traditional and electric cars due to a change in the regulatory testing. This has resulted in a slight decrease in factor.

Bioenergy
Factors for biodiesel have been aligned to National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory methodologies. This has resulted in a substantial increase (around 420%) compared to 2019 factors.

Click here to read the full article.

NLWA- The Waste Prevention Community Fund

Calling all not for profit community groups/organisations!

Do you have a waste prevention initiative that can help the residents of North London? If yes, then the North London Waste Authority would like to hear from you.

The Waste Prevention Community Fund will support community based organisations by providing them with access to funding, to develop new approaches to tackle waste prevention.

With up to 100% funding of the project cost, support can be provided for projects of up to £15,000 tackling a waste prevention problem.

Applications must be submitted by 21 July 2020.

Learn more and apply here

Useful Links

CCCA COVID Support for Organisations

Camden Cargo Bike Network

Camden Climate Fund

Camden in Bloom

Free Bicycle Loan Scheme

Online CCCA Resources

Don’t forget that the Camden Climate Change Alliance website has guides available in our members area for third sector, businesses and schools!

They cover a range of sustainability topics including environmental policy, energy, air quality, recycling, sustainable travel and waste. You can also find some interesting case studies.

The guides can be found in our resource library. Find out more here.

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News and updates July 2020