Carbon Sequestration and Offsetting - Find a freedom of information request

I am a MSc Sustainability and Environmental Management student preparing a strategy for local authorities for my final paper. The aim is to provide strategic direction on carbon sequestration and offsetting to further support climate emergency declarations. Please can you answer the following questions

1. Has your council declared a climate emergency and produced an action plan/strategy or policy that covers carbon sequestration and offsetting? If yes, please attached a copy of the policy/strategy or provide a link to the online copy.

2. Have you, within your existing or planned strategies/policies, considered carbon sequestration and offsetting? If yes, please outline those plans not included in question 1 or attach a copy or link to an online copy.

3. What forms of carbon sequestration have you considered, and which have you excluded? What was the basis of that decision?

4. How have you or do you plan to quantify the extent of carbon sequestration required to offset your carbon emissions within the council? Please provide any figures and equations you have used. What was the basis for using those figures/equations?

5. Do you as a council or your contractors use any of the offsetting schemes ie Woodland Trust to offset your carbon emissions? If yes, please list those used.

1. Lincolnshire County Council has not declared a climate emergency but has committed to becoming Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

LCC have produced a Green Master Plan which is our road map to achieving carbon neutrality for Lincolnshire.

• It includes action for the first period 2020-2025. ·
• It is a living document and will be added to/updated continuously.
• At present this plan doesn't include carbon offsetting or sequestration.

A link to the Green Master Plan is here https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/homepage/128/green-masterplan

2. LCC aim to reduce the carbon emissions through reduction in actual carbon emissions from the authority but later on that journey towards carbon neutrality it may become necessary to look at carbon offsetting which may be through sequestration or possibly through the installation of large scale renewables.

3. LCC is not at the stage on our journey towards carbon neutrality yet where we need to consider this.

4. LCC is not at the stage on our journey towards carbon neutrality yet where we need to consider this. However if we get to that stage we would quantify the required sequestration with an approved body possible the Carbon Trust or Woodland Trust 5. LCC is not at the stage on our journey towards carbon neutrality yet where we need to consider this.