{"id":132694,"date":"2025-10-19T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:46:07","slug":"two-areas-of-oxfordshire-lagging-behind-on-net-zero-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132694\/","title":{"rendered":"Two areas of Oxfordshire &#8220;lagging behind&#8221; on Net zero targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Two Oxfordshire councils have admitted their districts are &#8220;lagging behind&#8221; on plans to reach net zero by 2045.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils said they needed an annual average reduction in carbon emissions in their areas of 9% between 2021 and 2025 to stay on track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Vale has managed an average of 3.3% reduction in annual emissions between 2019 and 2023 and South achieved 5% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Both authorities said they were &#8220;limited&#8221; in their ability to meet the target, as a large proportion of district-wide emissions are outside their control<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The councils said they were still &#8220;well placed&#8221; to influence emissions reduction and had taken a number of steps over the past few years, such as:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-6f869981-0 bYhyhr\">\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 NnDUj\">Reducing the council&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions, including major decarbonisation projects at leisure centres<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 NnDUj\">Installing electric vehicle charging bays<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-734a601e-0 NnDUj\">Providing funding to local organisations for energy efficiency initiatives and decarbonisation measures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Reports for both councils said: &#8220;The rate of decarbonisation is accelerating slightly but is still lagging behind where it needs to be to reach net zero targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">They also added that in the short term, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g641gydr4o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planned local government reorganisation<\/a> would &#8220;limit&#8221; some council activities to deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">But both authorities said they would &#8220;continue to proactively look for opportunities to accelerate the rate of decarbonisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Oxfordshire councils have admitted their districts are &#8220;lagging behind&#8221; on plans to reach net zero by 2045.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-132694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}