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Buckinghamshire Council

… from the Low Carbon Workspaces initiative. Hopefully this report provides some inspiration to you all to explore new ways to reduce your environmental impact – there are some useful suggestions available on the AWorld App about some small lifestyle choices that everyone can make to save resources. It’s great that 14 tonnes of CO2 has already been saved by those using it. We can all feel…

… and Amersham Depot (which will save up to 228 tonnes of CO2e per annum), 200 business have been assisted by Low Carbon Workspaces to reduce their carbon footprints and energy costs, and 64 accredited school travel plans have been established. Results from several schemes have, once again, confirmed widespread interest in delivering a zero carbon future for Buckinghamshire. Environmentally…

… in Buckinghamshire that can help people reduce their waste • Providing information and advice to businesses and community groups regarding funding opportunities (e.g. Low Carbon Workspaces) and means to reduce emissions from fleet vehicles (e.g. the Electric Vehicles for Businesses Project) • Encouraging individuals to adopt more environmentally friendly behaviours via the AWorld app • Instigating…

… Sector Decarbonisation Scheme • submitting an application to the Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund for heat decarbonisation plans/detailed design plans for 7 sites Transition to Cloud Based Servers (re Action 17) Over the past 18 months, we have replaced over 260 of our traditional on-site computer servers with the Microsoft ‘Azure’ Cloud service. Moving these out of sites in Aylesbury…

… immensely satisfied with what has been achieved so far. The Council’s ‘21/’22 carbon emissions (6,095 TCO2e) were far less than the carbon budget that was set (7,407 TCO2e). We have secured Government grants in excess of £10.3m to progress initiatives, introduced more electric vehicles into fleets and sizeable solar photovoltaic systems on buildings providing Council services, planted impressive…