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Cheshire East Council (Unitary)

… key outcome indicators such as carbon emissions, waste re-use and recycling rates, and air quality. Our decision-making reports now include a section to consider the implications of the recommendations on climate change. Carbon accounting will be embedded into our business planning and financial investment practices and procedures. We will produce a report in 2022 to update on progress…

… locally by taking action to reduce our carbon emissions and become a Carbon Neutral Council by 2025. The Council has already reduced carbon emissions by 55% since 2010 through initiatives to reduce carbon and introduce renewal energy sources to our buildings and streetlighting. The Council has produced its Carbon Action Plan7 to set out how it will achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 and how…

… it will influence wider carbon emission reductions across the borough. The current carbon footprint of the Council has been assessed to be 15,447 t/CO2e (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent). To achieve carbon neutrality the Council recognises that it has a range of influences on carbon emissions depending upon the amount of control it has. The scope of the carbon neutrality ambition for 2025 are those…

… in the Borough should decrease in line with the UK Government’s 2050 zero carbon objective; however, there is a significant amount of influence the council will bring locally to facilitate this. The action plan to reduce emissions is broken down into 5 areas: • Behaviour Change and Internal Policy - Actions that focus on internal policy, culture and behaviour of the council (e.g. decision-making…

… the relative contribution of all activity to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. OFFICIAL 7 May 2020 In order to ensure that this level of emissions is reached, each service area within the Council will be allocated a carbon budget and will be required to develop a costed implementation plan to deliver this. Progress against these carbon budgets will be reported though the Council’s…