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Blaby District Council

… and milestones.  Establishes our carbon budget and identifies potential carbon reduction pathways.  Prioritises carbon reduction measures and suggests timescales in which we intend to deliver these.  Puts forward potential future projects, or ideas requiring further investigation before being committed to.  A series of options for how different projects may be funded.  The process by which…

… are missed from the BEIS emissions data. 6 Blaby will use the SCATTER tool to demonstrate the potential carbon reductions that are possible through certain pathways. SCATTER is a local authority focussed emissions tool, built to help create low-carbon local authorities and has been used to generate our area footprint. It’s development has been funded by the Department for Business…

… Carbon Reduction Pathways Blaby’s carbon budget illustrates the need to pursue an ambitious carbon reduction programme if we are to become a carbon neutral district by 2050 and preferably earlier. Figure 3 below shows some illustrative pathways that we could take in line with our carbon budget in comparison to the trend in emissions if Blaby District Council were to continue as it has done so…

… better windows. Improve the management of energy usage across our assets to highlight and reduce energy use. Short term 6.2.3 Replace existing gas boilers at main offices with low carbon alternative and explore potential for the use of heat pumps. Short term 6.2.4 Identify ways and means of reducing carbon footprint and energy efficiency of our leased assets and use our influence…

…. This plan identifies where our current emissions come from and identifies many potential carbon reduction measures to increase our chance of staying within our carbon budget and meeting these targets. We are committed to working with the whole district to reduce emissions and there is an appreciation that far more resource and investment will be required to implement many of the actions and reach our…