Including the closely related term baseline carbon.
… emissions that occur as a result of the Council’s own operations. We have calculated the carbon footprint of the Council’s own operations in line with the UK Government’s Environmental Reporting Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting10. The first Plan, of June 2020, reported the baseline upon which future years progress will be monitored. That baseline carbon footprint (using data…
… for the financial year 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019) resulted in a baseline carbon footprint for the Council, as an organisation, for 2018/19 of 1,317 tonnes of CO2e (full breakdown in the June 2020 Plan). The second Environment Plan, of June 2021, reported the carbon footprint for the Council for 2019/20 (i.e. to April 2020). It reported the Council’s carbon footprint as being (for 2019-20) 1,315…