On 17 July 2023 the Parish Council declared a climate emergency and agreed to develop a plan for Ironville to do what it can to reduce our community’s impact on the planet.
The report below tells you about Ironville & Codnor Park’s Carbon carbon footprint – both the scale of emissions and the main activities responsible for the emissions.
There are two ways of viewing our community’s carbon footprint: territorial-based, or consumption-based.
Territorial footprints consider the emissions produced within our geographical boundary –such as from heating buildings, transport, industry, and agriculture – regardless of whether the residents within the community are engaged in or demand those activities. A consumption footprint captures all the emissions produced as a result of the activities that Ironville & Codnor Park residents engage in, regardless of where geographically they occur. For example, emissions resulting from the food they eat, the clothes and household items they buy, the leisure activities they engage in, their travel behaviours, and the heating of their homes. The consumption-based footprint is based on household and address-level data, which is then aggregated up to the community level
If you want to understand more about what the impact report is telling us you can click on this link: Using Impact