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Reading Borough Council

… use and thereby restricting our carbon emissions we are helping to safeguard our world for future generations. The urgency and importance of doing so was underlined by the Council’s declaration of a climate emergency in February 2019, committing to the ambitious goal of a net zero carbon Reading by 2030. The Council’s Carbon Plan sets out our policy and targets on corporate energy and water…

… of becoming a net zero organisation by 2030. The Carbon Plan 2020-25 will work towards four headline targets as follows - by 2025 we will: • Reduce the organisation’s carbon emissions by 85%, against a 2008/9 baseline1 • Generate equivalent to 50% of our energy from renewable sources by 20252 • Reduce our use of fossil fuels by 50%, against a 2008/09 baseline3 • Achieve a 5% p.a. reduction…

… the achievement of the headline 85% carbon reduction in the Plan target more challenging, it would remain within reach assuming that the shortfall could be made up from other areas of our corporate carbon footprint. Classification: OFFICIAL Appendix 3: DRAFT RBC CORPORATE CARBON PLAN 2020-25 6 | P a g e Classification: OFFICIAL 3. Managing our resources – progress to date Since Reading…

… on the actions set out in the Carbon Plan 2015-20 to achieve a carbon emission reduction target of 50% by 2020, against the 2008/9 baseline. Reading has a strong track record on carbon emissions reduction, being amongst the top ten boroughs in the Country for reductions since 2005, totalling 228kT CO2 or 52% of Reading’s total reductions. In the latest year for which data is available (2018/19), Reading…

… and gas, for buildings and street lighting, with a small volume of fuel oil for heating buildings, with the cost in 2018/19 totalling over £1.8m. Figure 3.1: Breakdown of Reading Borough Council carbon footprint, 2018/19 The carbon emissions from energy used in buildings accounted for 68% of the Council’s carbon footprint in 2018/19, as shown in Figure 3.1 above. Carbon emissions from street…