Context

West Sussex County Council has identified the importance of responding to climate change in Our Council Plan 2021 – 2025, which outlines our key priorities that are all underpinned by a commitment to protecting the environment. This is also linked to our Climate Change Strategy 2020 – 2030, which sets out our ambition to become a carbon neutral and climate resilient organisation by 2030 and is supported by the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, the council's delivery and action plan for achieving these goals.

The yearly Climate Change Awareness and Commuting Survey will help WSCC to better understand staff engagement with, knowledge of, and behaviour around climate action. It will be run annually to help track progress toward 2030 and inform how the Sustainability team is able to support each directorate, service area, and team across the council. To meet the county council's carbon neutral emissions target by 2030, we also need to ensure that we fully understand our current carbon footprint. We do this by carbon baseline reporting, which measures all the fossil fuels that we emit in the delivery of our services and is represented in tonnes of carbon dioxide or equivalent (CO2e) that are released into the atmosphere. The Climate Change Awareness and Commuting Survey provides invaluable data to inform this mandatory reporting, including insights into our total emissions from staff travel.

Yearly carbon baseline reporting, including results from this annual survey, will show our progress towards our carbon neutrality ambitions.

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