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INDIVIDUALS in Leeds need to make “radical reductions” in their carbon usage, experts and politicians in the city have warned. The head of a voluntary organisation that campaigns for climate action in the city said carbon emissions had nearly halved in Leeds since the year 2000, but that far more needed to be done for it to meet its own climate targets. Members of Leeds City Council’s Climate Emergency Committee said that residents would need to look at their own carbon usage in the coming years. The council announced a climate emergency in early 2019, which led to ambitious plans for the city to be net carbon-zero – where carbon emissions are balanced out by carbon removal methods, such as tree planting – by 2030. ....
Submitting. Coun Neil Walshaw says billions of pounds will be needed to make Leeds homes carbon zero. “But to retrofit the housing stock of Leeds, it would cost around six-to-eight billion pounds to make housing effectively carbon neutral. “At this time, I don’t think anyone in the country is quite prepared for the scale of this and what it needs. We need to communicate the sheer nature of change the government is going to have to face to let us be dynamic in the face of this.” As a measure of comparison, Leeds City Council’s entire revenue budget for the coming year is less than £500m – a sixteenth of the total money that Coun Walshaw believed would be needed. ....