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Devon County Council

…. 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…

… electricity.   6.1.2. Future Effect of National Policy The effect of the projected deployment of large-scale renewable energy on the UK’s electricity network by 2030/31 is expected to reduce annual emissions from the council’s buildings to 2,579t CO2e, a reduction of 68% from 2012/13. 6.1.3. Local Action Plan The projects described in Table 1 will be implemented to achieve carbon reductions from…

… transport operations increasing by 140 tCO2e per year by 2030/31 from 2017/18 levels, a rise of 1%, which is still 12% below 2012/13 levels. 6.2.3. Local Action Plan The projects described in Table 2 will be implemented to achieve carbon reductions from fleet, business and school travel beyond the effect of national policy. Table 2 – Local actions to reduce emissions from corporate property…