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West Dunbartonshire Council

… Change policy. The Legal and Policy drivers In a drive towards a low carbon economy, the Scottish Government set world leading Climate Change targets to reduce Scotland’s carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, with an interim reduction of 42% by 2020. In 2014 this interim target was met and exceeded (45.8%), originally leading to a new target set for a reduction of 50% for 2020. These targets…

… looking at how we use and provide energy; encouraging our employees to be more environmentally- friendly; developing biodiversity sites throughout the area and taking steps to manage and reduce the Council-wide carbon footprint. Our environmental strategic work has included our previous Climate Change Strategy; Energy Strategy; and Carbon Management Plan. Our new Climate Change Strategy looks…

… operations are driving down emissions. RPP3 sets out the path to a low carbon economy while helping to deliver sustainable economic growth and secure the wider benefts to a greener, fairer and healthier Scotland in 2032. Since the publication of RPP3, a Climate Emergency has been announced by Scotland’s First Minister, followed by new national emissions reduction targets and the ‘Climate Change…

… over long periods of time which involves strong and sustained data records from these energy sources. In recent years signifcant progress has been made in better understanding, monitoring and recording these energy sources in order to reduce consumption and improve practice. Energy and Water currently make up 44% of the overall carbon footprint, so it is important that we continue to make…

… efforts to reduce consumption and emissions from energy and water to have a greater chance of getting to net zero by 2045. We will therefore maintain or exceed the current energy reduction target of 2% set in our previous Energy Strategy. energy and water currently make up 44% of the overall carbon footprint We are currently developing a pilot Local Heat and Energy Efciency Strategy (LHEES…