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Reading Borough Council

… for a ‘green recovery’ from the impacts of COVID-19. The actions set out in this plan will make good business sense as well as environmental sense, reducing future revenue pressures and ensuring that the Council is fit for the future and on track to a net zero carbon Reading, at the forefront of the UK and city governments worldwide in tackling climate change. Classification…

…, typically in the form of carbon dioxide, such as from the combustion of natural gas in boilers, or from combustion of gas in power stations generating electricity for the National Grid. Greenhouse gases are a main factor is causing man-made climate change, which is having, and will in the future have, a significant impact on our way of life and the world around us. By limiting our energy and water…

… Borough Council signed the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change in 2006 the authority has undertaken a wide range of work to address energy, water and carbon management, focusing on reducing costs, limiting its impact on the environment, decarbonising our energy supply and integrating these approaches across the organisation. In the last five years, the organisation has been working…

… harvested requiring us to reach higher for future reductions. To guide us we have structured this Carbon Plan around the actions set out by the Committee for Climate Change in its July 2019 report ‘Reducing UK emissions: Progress Report to Parliament’. This identifies four key themes over the next five years to drive further and deeper carbon emissions reductions, and by adopting these we can…

… Committee on Climate Change, this Carbon Plan is structured around the following four aims: i) REDUCE - we will reduce our energy demand through energy efficiency measures, asset disposal and other measures to reduce demand ii) DECARBONISE – we will reduce emissions from ongoing activities via electrification of heating and vehicle fleets iii) GENERATE – we will install further renewable…