In the summer of 2006, the project began to focus on specific strategies for reduction. Seven commitments had been made by the City Council over the previous year:
- To sign the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change, developed initially by the Energy Saving Trust
- To identify and implement energy management strategies of 25% in municipal operations
- To produce a home energy strategy for reducing residential emissions by 5% each year
- To introduce sustainable purchasing and waste minimization strategies for the municipal operations
- To reduce municipal transport emissions associated with staff travel
- To promote sustainable energy technologies through a Sustainable Design and Construction Supplementary Planning Document
- To increase climate change awareness and action amongst staff
The CRed program tackled these issues through six new projects:
- Assessing energy performance of existing residential buildings, and suggesting strategies for improvement
- Assessing energy performance of new residential buildings, and suggesting strategies for improvement
- Assessing the potential of car clubs to reduce emissions from the transport sector
- Assessing the ability of City Council educational materials on climate change and carbon dioxide reduction to produce changes in attitudes and practices of citizens
- Creating administrative ties to link the City Council, the University of Cambridge and the Colleges through carbon reduction projects
- Documenting climate change initiatives being taken by citizens and organizations in Cambridge
The results of these studies are summarized in a Power Point presentation given to the Cambridge City Council and interested citizens in August 2006. To view them, download the 2006 Summer Program in International Energy Policy and Environmental Assessment Council Presentation. You can also read the summary of the first five projects (the sixth resulted in a DVD-based documentary) by downloading the 2006 Summer Program in International Energy Policy and Environmental Assessment Progress Report. |
The Cambridge Local Plan, 2006 contains details on likely locations of new housing.
A study of car clubs indicated that these would have little influence on carbon dioxide emissions in town, and could worsen them under some scenarios. |
