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Reading Borough Council

… meaningful progress towards being zero carbon in its operations by 2025. Our vision for the Council in this Carbon Plan is therefore to: ‘lead by example and work in partnership towards achieving net zero carbon operations by 2030’. Setting ambitious yet realistic targets for carbon reduction and renewable energy generation by 2025 will be important to keep us on track to the ultimate goal…

… 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…

… petrol <1 car club <1% business mileage 2% % of total reduction - 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 Carbon emissions per sector 2008/9 2015/16 2018/19 Classification: OFFICIAL Appendix 3: DRAFT RBC CORPORATE CARBON PLAN 2020-25 8 | P a g e Classification: OFFICIAL Areas where the most significant progress in reducing emissions has been…

… CORPORATE CARBON PLAN 2020-25 18 | P a g e Classification: OFFICIAL Electric vehicles Electric vehicle technology has advanced rapidly in recent years. With no tailpipe emissions, their carbon emissions are indirect and are associated with the fuel used to generate the electricity for the powering and manufacture of the vehicles. Electric vehicles are significantly more energy efficient than…