One of the biggest challenges facing small producers is getting their produce to customers. The EPIC project is designed to faciliate this as efficiently as possible while also driving down ...
Driving down eCO2 emissions is a big challenge. Keeping them down is just as big a challenge. We need to established a local economy which has minimal carbon cost (zero or net zero) and one that ...
On 10 Nov 2023 SHDC ran a symposium to discuss a way forward for Food and Agriculture across the district. Slides, notes and a video of some the proceedings are presented. During ...
Peter Jones Associates and Cycling UK have been commissioned by South Hams District Council to develop an area-wide cycling and walking infrastructure plan (LCWIP) and behaviour change ...
Doubling the number of trees across the UK would account for 10% of current CO2 emissions. The national average for woodland cover in the UK is only 13%, compared to an EU average of 37%.
There is now more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been since before humans emerged, as Homo Habilis, some 2.5 million years ago. The mid-Pliocene (3-5m years ago) was the last ...
Councils have many opportunities and powers to address Climate Change and Biodiversity loss but it is important to recognise these powers are not unlimited. We have very few powers to raise ...
In 2023 South Hams District Council developed and adopted an EV strategy. As a proportion of overall emissions, Transport emissions account for around 27% of all emissions in South Hams and as ...
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