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Shropshire Council - Unitary

… corporate carbon performance by 2030. The Strategy Framework also identified the risks posed by the climate crisis to Council services, together with information about the Council’s direct carbon footprint and the actions and initiatives which were already being undertaken to reduce this. Finally, it also set out a set of key principles to guide the Council’s actions. 1.3. Measures to reduce…

… the Council’s footprint represents only around 1% of Shropshire’s total carbon footprint, work is ongoing to refine performance data and establish an accurate picture to support annual monitoring. The data above show that the majority of the Council’s carbon emissions are generated from indirect activity, such as services which are commissioned from commercial providers, the repair and maintenance of its…

… trends in parallel with the Council’s financial budget. The starting point for this budget is our current corporate footprint. Indicative annual targets for each service area are set out in Table 2 below. Table 2: Indicative Annual Carbon Budget 2020 – 2030 (tonnes CO2e) 6 Carbon Reduction Trajectory 6.1 The carbon budget set out in Table 2 above recognises that early action is desirable…

… Action Partnership 9.1 The world-renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change in Manchester has recently a maximum cumulative carbon dioxide emissions budget of 17.2 million tonnes (MtCO2) for Shropshire for the period of 2020 to 2100. The latest carbon footprint calculations show that at 2017 CO2 emission levels, the county would use this entire budget by 2023. 9.2 In addition to efforts…

… Corporate Climate Strategy 2020 8 February 2021 3 Figure 1: Sources of corporate carbon emissions 2.2. A value chain carbon footprint measures both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of an organisation. Emissions are categorised across an organisation’s value chain, including upstream and downstream activities. These include emissions from both suppliers and consumers…