Including 9 closely related terms such as reduce carbon, carbon emission, and carbon footprint.
…. 4.1.2. Supply Chain Strategy The council will: • Engage with contract providers to reduce carbon emissions from their operations and offset the remainder by 2030/31. As a first step, the council will engage the ten highest-value contract providers. • Offset residual emissions from the year 2030 onwards. 4.2. School Buildings’ Carbon Footprint The council will use its role to facilitate…
… footprints will enable the authority to monitor the effectiveness of this plan and revise its targets if necessary. 5. Progress Towards Targets 5.1. Corporate Carbon Footprint DCC has reported its corporate carbon footprint and has been implementing projects to deliberately reduce carbon emissions since 2005. In response to substantial changes to the structure of the organisation…
… chain carbon footprint is currently estimated, the effect of individual initiatives at reducing carbon emissions, such as those described above, are not apparent in the data. 6. Reducing Corporate Emissions The University of Exeter has assisted the council in understanding the effect of national policy on its carbon emissions over the next decade, as well as the effect of an increasing…
… and school transport in 2012/13 = 15,109 tCO2e The annual carbon emissions from the council’s vehicle fleet, its staff undertaking travel for business purposes and the provision of school transport was 13,206 tCO2e in 2017/18, which represents 49% of the corporate carbon footprint. This has reduced by 13% since 2012/13 in comparable terms. Energy consumption by the vehicle fleet is 27% below 2012/13…
… factor. This means that the carbon footprint doesn’t change very much and any local activity that is implemented to reduce the carbon emissions associated with specific contracts is not reflected in the figure the council reports. This is not to say that the council has not worked to reduce carbon emissions from its supply chain. Impactful examples include the use of low temperature asphalt in some…