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South Gloucestershire Council

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… ❚ Corporate estate 8 ❚ Schools 11 ❚ ICT 13 ❚ Street lighting 16 ❚ Transport - fleet vehicles and business mileage 18 Commitment Climate change has continued to rise steeply up international, national and local agendas. To help avoid the potentially devastating effects of climate change, the UK government has established that we need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 per…

… cent by 2050 against a 1990 baseline. The council remains committed to reducing its GHG emissions to contribute towards the national targets, and to play its part in limiting the extent of dangerous climate change. Financial imperatives to reduce energy consumption have also increased (with energy price rises and the introduction of the Carbon Reduction Commitment) and are expected…

… of greenhouse gases. Different greenhouse gases have a different impact on climate change (their ‘global warming potential’). CO2e is a universal measurement used to indicate the global warming potential of one unit of carbon dioxide. It enables the global warming potential of different greenhouse gases to be expressed using a common metric. 2 It is recognised that the council causes additional GHG…

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