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Ashfield District Council

… change has become a cause for concern, with human activities dangerously increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Ashfield District Council (ADC) recognises that we have a responsibility to act and reduce our own contribution to climate change and achieve net zero emissions. In order to meet our aims we have conducted a full greenhouse gas analysis of the Council’s own operational emissions…

… and produced this Carbon Management Plan. ADC has already made considerable progress in reducing its emissions through multiple different projects, including installing solar PV on many council owned buildings, operating smarter working practices in council offices and launching a Climate Change Officer Working Group to collaboratively drive reductions in carbon emissions. Also, Council decision…

… Midlands, delivering on sustainability and meeting its climate change targets’ and with this the 2010 Carbon Management Plan (CMP) set the target to reduce ADC emissions by 35% from 2008-9 baseline by April 20156. This included baseline data collected for National Indicator (NI) 185, with additional categories, such as waste, fugitive emissions, employee commuting, business travel, water use…

…, and utility consumption in other outsourced assets. Based on the emissions calculations later in this report for the equivalent categories as the original CMP report, by April 2015 a 27% reduction was achieved7. In July 2019, ADC committed to do everything possible to combat climate change, including committing to a robust climate change strategy. Since the 2010 target and the 2019 commitment…

… to carry out: energy audits and data analysis, solar PV desktop studies and detailed analysis into viable PV projects. Council Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions baseline Nottingham City Council commissioned to calculate and analyse ADC’s full scope 1, 2 and 3 baseline for the Council’s own operations. Climate Change Officer Working Group Open to all departments, key attendees from officers…