The Council's Carbon Performance
One of the Climate Change Programme's priorities is to stretch
the Council as far as it can to reduce CO2 and save money - this
means generating new ideas, evaluating them and implementing them.
The Council joined the Carbon Trust's Local Authority Carbon
Management Programme in 2008 and set a target to reduce our
carbon emissions by 40 per cent by March 2014 from the 2007/08
baseline level, and being carbon neutral by 2020
Target
It is the Council’s ambition, set out in the Carbon
Management Plan (CMP) to reduce carbon emissions from its own
operations by 40 per cent from its 2007/08 level by 31 March
2014.
Progress
The Climate Change Programme and CMP are now in their third
year. In 2010/11, Council's carbon emissions reduced by 3.7 per
cent , compared to 2007/08 baseline. We estimate approximately
£142,500 was saved in 2010/11 from our reduction in energy/resource
use.
Performance Overview
Below table summarises the performance of each areas.Carbon
emissions from Council's properties, street lighting, and waste
management have reduced. However emissions from schools, leisure
centres and some contractors have increased.
| Area |
% against total emissions |
Performance against baseline |
Performance against 2009/10 |
| Property |
45.6% |
-4.4% |
-1.1% |
| Schools |
26.5% |
+1.9% |
-0.1% |
| Street Lights |
11.1% |
-21.4% |
-6.2% |
| Leisure Centres (GLL) |
7.1% |
+9.1% |
+1.7% |
| Waste management (SITA) |
5.1% |
-5.5% |
-6.7% |
| Other Contractors (Ringway, Quadron, NSL, HCT, Crystal
Coaches) |
4.1% |
+23.4% |
+0.2% |
| Council's transportation |
0.5% |
-37.0% |
-8.0% |
| Total |
(100%) |
-3.7% |
-1.5% |
Future Outlook
We have prepared plans for each of areas for 2011/12 to improve
the performance as far as possible. The future outlook of the
Programme will be focused mainly on improving energy efficiency of
existing and new buildings and on strenghthening the sustainability
impact on our procurement policy.
Read More
If you are interested in finding out more about the performance,
please read the report which was presented to the Council's
Management Board in Novermber 2011.