Latest data shows over 20% drop in carbon emissions
The latest available data from The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), published in June 2024, shows a significant drop in carbon emissions in west Cheshire in 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions in the borough stood at 4.021 million tons in 2021. These reduced to 3.201 million tons in 2022. This represents a 20.4% year-on-year drop in carbon emissions.
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Community set to benefit following bumper tree planting season
Generations of communities across Cheshire and Merseyside will benefit from the creation of new woodland across The Mersey Forest, following a bumper tree planting season over the winter. Over 264 hectares of woodland have been planted across Merseyside and Cheshire, the equivalent of 380 football pitches. The Mersey Forest continues to look for areas of land that would be suitable for tree planting.
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Funding for energy efficient home improvements available through ECO4 scheme
Eligible residents in west Cheshire could benefit from the Energy Companies Obligation scheme that aims to help households cut energy bills and reduce carbon emissions. Referred to as ECO4, the scheme will target some of the borough’s most inefficient homes to provide insulation and clean-heat technologies.
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Castle Park Arts Centre runs successful crowdfunding campaign
The Cheshire West Crowd has helped Castle Park Arts Centre successfully crowdfund solar panels, reducing energy costs and helping the environment at the same time. A crowdfunding initiative run by Cheshire West and Chester Council in partnership with Spacehive, the Cheshire West Crowd allows everyone to put forward community-led projects and attract funding, creating a stronger future where we all play our part in thriving, caring and sustainable communities.
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View the sustainable house at Cheshire College’s Ellesmere Port campus
Cheshire College is just one local organisation that is helping the borough to tackle the Climate Emergency and create greener, more sustainable communities. The college has built a fully functioning sustainable house, aimed at giving students hands-on experience with sustainable technologies, at their Ellesmere Port campus. The house addresses the ever-increasing demand for environmentally friendly properties, as well as the skills gap in sustainable construction methods.
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New insights discovered on the minds of squirrels and impact of urban life
The impact of the urban environment on squirrels’ problem-solving, learning and memory has been highlighted in new research from the UK’s University of Chester and Hokkaido University in Japan. In one of the few studies that joins ecology and psychology to look at the animal mind in the wild, researchers have examined how stressful urban environmental characteristics are for squirrels and discovered they have a greater effect on cognitive performance than previously shown.
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