Key information
Request reference number: MGLA010520-0586
Date of response:
Summary of request
1. A strategy document that outlines the GLA's carbon strategy, which includes any strategy for using carbon offsets to meet carbon targets.
2. Details of all projects that offset payments have been made towards by the GLA since 2015, including who is running those projects, what is being done with the money in the projects, the value of payments made by the GLA, and over what period money is being.
3. Copies of any annual reports available from the past few years that are made by the GLA on LPAs' carbon offset funds, as P29 of this document indicates takes place: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/carbon_offsett_funds_guid…. pdf
4. Any strategy document or survey available that outlines what the GLA specifically looks at when it reports on offset funds - including, if relevant, how it regulates whether carbon savings in offsetting projects are matching the carbon emitted in developments; how it determines whether offsetting projects are additional to projects that might already exist; and any other relevant regulation made by the GLA.
5. A record of any occasion since the establishment of carbon offset funds by LPAs when the GLA has contacted or reprimanded LPAs as a result of offsetting funds failing to work as they should. Please send any relevant documentation that refers to these occasions, including information on what the problem was that the GLA found, how the GLA then acted, and how the LPA then responded with respect to the problem found.
Related documents
MGLA010520-0586 - EIR response