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… to Council: Approach to Climate Emergency Action Plan 2 2 RECOMMENDATION(S) 2.1 That Cabinet: Recommends to Council agreement of the approach set out in paragraph 6.1 and 6.2. 3 Reason for Recommendations 3.1 The approach proposed would set out the short, medium and long term approach to the challenging target of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. 3.2 The report also makes arrangements…

… scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services as well as indirect transport related emission sources and waste – this draws from the Group’s deliberations so far and will be complemented by the stakeholder event. (ii) Undertake a Carbon baseline (External Contractor) - a comprehensive measurement of current carbon emissions on an organisational basis. Examples of approaches Cabinet…

…, with associated targets for carbon reduction. The measures themselves are likely to permeate most, if not all, of the Council’s business and activity and the Policy Development Group so far has identified measures within key themes. These themes are likely to form, or inform, the scope 1 and scope 2 areas referred to above as follows: Estate/ MBC Practice  Reduce plastic usage further e.g. small…

… sachets for refreshments in meeting rooms, plastic bin liners that are not biodegradable, green cleaning products etc.  Council Housing: over time, housing improvements to include low carbon/carbon neutral materials, heating systems etc. Build in to maintenance programmes;  Consider use of estate and assets to provide exemplars of energy efficiency/carbon neutral development;  Investigate…

… Implications Cabinet Report Climate Emergency - Recommendation to Council: Approach to Climate Emergency Action Plan 6 13.1 This report is fundamental to the Council’s future measures in respect of environmental impact and climate change. The work programme will develop steps to realise our ambitions to realise the objective of the Council becoming carbon neutral by 2030. 14 Other Implications…