Town of Stratford seeing success with reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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STRATFORD, P.E.I. — The City of Stratford is touting its environmental efforts after decreasing group greenhouse gasoline emissions by 8.7 per cent over a six-year interval.
Stories launched on June 1 point out the city produced 85,358 tonnes of greenhouse gasoline emissions in 2021, down from 93,517 tonnes in 2015.
Company-related emissions have been additionally down, totalling 761 tonnes in 2021, 19.6 per cent decrease than 946 tonnes in 2015.
In 2022, the City of Stratford grew to become the primary Island municipality to implement an vitality plan via the countrywide Companions for Local weather Safety program.
City officers consider the group is on observe and prone to exceed the discount targets set by the 2015 group vitality plan, which requires the city to drop whole emissions by a further six per cent and company emissions by one other 20 per cent earlier than 2026.
Gordie Cox, chair of the city’s sustainability committee, mentioned now’s the time for everybody to proceed pushing ahead on the hassle.
“As a group, there may be extra we are able to do,” mentioned Cox. “We now need to push ourselves much more to set extra aggressive targets and start to work in direction of them. As our group grows, this turns into extra of a problem to understand however we’re up for the problem, and we all know that we’ve to do the laborious work for the long run we would like for our youngsters, grandchildren and past.”
