{"id":300483,"date":"2025-07-29T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300483\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:19:10","slug":"bristol-not-expected-to-meet-its-own-2030-net-zero-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300483\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol not expected to meet its own 2030 net zero target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After declaring a Climate Emergency, the council also committed to cutting its own emissions to net zero by this year, another goal that would not be met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These &#8220;direct emissions&#8221; included those from council-owned buildings and vehicles. which were forecast to have been reduced by 88% between 2016 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is well ahead of any other major UK local authority&#8221;, the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Martin Fodor, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability committee, said the city&#8217;s efforts were &#8220;bearing fruit&#8221; towards carbon neutrality, which he described as &#8220;one of the most ambitious and important endeavours we&#8217;ve ever set out to achieve&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he added, &#8220;whilst we can allow ourselves a moment to celebrate the positive progress made to date, we cannot linger long if we&#8217;re to meet the national target set in law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK law sets a date of 2050 for the whole of the UK to be carbon neutral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After declaring a Climate Emergency, the council also committed to cutting its own emissions to net zero by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935075246751740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}