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Torbay Council

… across the Council, including: All council buildings (including offices, maintained schools, other) Street lighting Council fleet School travel Staff travel (including staff using their personal cars for Council business (grey fleet)), rail, taxi and other forms of travel i.e., hire cars) Others (including outsourced services delivered for the Council by wholly owned companies - TDA and SWISCo…

… for us. In 2019-2020 the Council was responsible for an estimated 5400 tCO2e. The largest sources of emissions arose from the electricity we used to power our buildings, fuel used to power our fleet and gas used to heat our buildings. These made up over 85% of the Council’s footprint. Given the current difficulties collating the carbon footprint, some direct emissions and indirect emissions…

… plan. Council estate, energy and streetlighting In some cases, the energy (gas and electricity) use in council buildings can make up 70% of a council’s direct carbon emissions. Over the next 8 years we will work towards decarbonising the estate, starting with understanding and improving the worst performing buildings. Over the next two years we will: Provide additional resources to understand…

… to reduce direct3 and indirect4 carbon emissions across its own estate, operations and services. It also includes some Council services delivered by the Council’s two wholly owned companies - SWISCo and TDA. It commits the Council to a series of actions it will take from January 2022 up to April 2024. The primary focus of this Action Plan is on actions relating directly to Council operations. It also…

… covers actions where the Council can use its influence to reduce carbon emissions across Torbay. However, a more detailed Carbon Neutral Torbay Action Plan will be developed in 2022 by the Torbay Climate Partnership covering how partners (including the Council), businesses and communities will take action and collectively play their part in tackling the climate emergency locally…