Offaly County Council is launching the Tullamore Decarbonising Zone with a networking event on the 14th of July in Tullamore.
The purpose of the event is to bring all of the stakeholders in Tullamore together and following this to assist and enable communities and stakeholders to undertake a range of collaborative climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity measures.
What is Tullamore Decarbonising Zone?
Tullamore, as Offaly’s designated Decarbonising Zone (DZ), will show real leadership in delivering climate, biodiversity and sustainability actions through innovation, technology, creativity, and empowering community engagement, thus demonstrating local place-based successes that can be scaled up and replicated across the county and region.
Within the DZ area, it is the purpose of local authorities to work collaboratively with stakeholders and communities, and help to promote exploration, co-creativity, innovation and new learnings in delivering climate action, as well as the economic and social benefits of decarbonising, such as just transition and health.
In general it is envisaged that under the Tullamore DZ initiative projects, measures and initiatives will be explored, which would address a variety of measures including:
• Electricity sourcing
• Heat management
• Enhancing building energy efficiency
• Reducing needs for travel and shifting travel modes towards active and public transport
• Carbon sequestration
• Energy storage and management systems.
The DZ should also address the wider co-benefits of air quality, improved health, biodiversity, waste, water, circular economy, fuel energy poverty, skills, employment, citizen climate awareness and positive behavioural change.
We welcome all stakeholders, community groups and businesses to the Tullamore DZ Launch and networking event.
Why attend the event:
- This event is designed to showcase some of the most innovative energy technologies available
- Join the movement towards sustainability
- Gain insights in what is happening locally in policy and on the ground
- Explore business opportunities and develop partnerships, the event will be attended by all major stakeholders in Tullamore
Who should attend?
- Entrepreneurs and business owners in the Tullamore region, including hospitality businesses
- Local public bodies
- Local community groups and development groups with an interest in sustainability
- Education practitioners
- Local Authority staff and climate teams
Please email tullamoredz@offalycoco.ie to register your interest.