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West Suffolk Council

… initiatives. Develop administrative process to collate and to monitor internal and external funding streams that benefit the local environment or reduces carbon emissions. This will make it easier to promote the work of the council. NEW ACTION: Green taxi fleet Review emission requirements as part of the wider evaluation of the taxi policy. Existing housing 3.1 By working with partners…

… retrofit: “Continue bids for funding from the Government and others to reduce emissions across all housing markets and to deliver improvements in energy efficiency particularly focusing on low-income households and vulnerable residents, working with partners across Suffolk.” The Housing Strategy is due to be agreed in September 2024. Housing improvement loans scheme. ONGOING: A scoping…

… resource. 5.3 Internal reporting. Create a central register for grants or financial awards for environmental works. ONGOING: In March 2024, the council set up a central folder tracking grants and financial awards for environmental works – this is mostly focused on climate change, carbon reduction. However, more needs to be done to incorporate environment and biodiversity, and this work…

… of HGVs that could enable further fuel savings. Depending on the outcome this could be expanded to other vehicles/ parts of the fleet. Route optimisation is carried out regularly to ensure that routes are efficient and minimise carbon emissions. Continued professional development of driving staff. ONGOING: Driver CPC training is carried out annually. Training is mandatory for Vocational…

…, the council has emissions standing at 4,979tCO2e against the target budgets to be achieved 2028 of 2,484tCO2e to maintain trajectory to net zero. The data shows that a key contributor to the increase in emissions is from the council’s leisure operations delivered by Abbeycroft Leisure. There has been a 0.5 per cent decrease in emissions from council activity and a 4.6 per cent increase in emissions…