The Challenge
The Mayor of London has set ambitious carbon reduction targets for London: to reduce the capital's emissions by 60 per cent from their 1990 levels by 2025. To achieve them will require radical changes in energy usage and production as well as behavioural changes.
The Central London boroughs are investing in a number of initiatives to support this target, including:
- Funding infrastructure for electric vehicles
- Retrofitting initiatives
- Identifying and taking forward opportunities for local decentralised energy
Central London Forward will support this work and add strategic value where we can.
Achieving Low Carbon and Decentralised Energy in Central London
As a follow-up piece of work* to the Central London Infrastructure Assessment, CLF has commissioned consultants URS to carry out further investigation into carbon reduction plans in central London.
The purpose of this investigation is to examine practical approaches to carbon reduction and how boroughs can contribute to these outcomes with the best value-for-money outcomes.
The review will also analyse the challenges of implementing decentralised energy and local heat network and how the Central London boroughs can work together to overcome them.
We will keep you updated with progress on this work.
*Commissioned with the support of LDA funds.
