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…) Achieving the carbon emissions reduction tar- get for the Council’s corporate buildings, fleet vehicles and business travel will require the Council’s direct carbon emissions to reduce at a more rapid rate. For the reasons outlined above, reducing our gas usage from buildings (for heat) will be the major part of the challenge of reducing our emissions to net zero carbon. Figure 5. Total Gas…

…. These include Council buildings and land (where the Council owns the building or land and pays the energy bills), Council fleet vehicles and business travel (travel by staff in their own vehicles for business purposes). In the new Climate Change Strategy, we have set a target to reduce the Council’s direct carbon emissions to net zero by 2030. This Plan identifies a prioritised list of carbon reduction…

… Council | Carbon Management Plan 2021-2026 page 4 In March 2016, we set a target to reduce the Council’s direct emissions by 15-20% between 2014/15 and 2020/21 in the Carbon Manage- ment Plan for 2016-2021. As shown by Figure 1, the Council’s greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 28.9% from 2014/15 to 2019/20. Total gross emissions reduced by 2,320 tCO2e, from 8,041 tCO2e in 2014/15 to 5,721…

… tCO2e in 2019/20. Over the past 6 years, the Council’s carbon emissions have reduced by an average of 387 tCO2e per year. Figure 1. Cambridge City Council Greenhouse Gas Emissions (tCO2) 2014/15 Tonnes CO2 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 8041 7584 7234 6564 6011 5721 The reduction in the Council’s emissions from 2014/15 to 2019/20 is partly due to steps that the Council has taken…

… 2021-2026 page 9 Aims We know that we will need to reduce the Council’s carbon emissions from our corporate buildings and fleet vehicles rapidly over the next 5 years if we are to reach net zero carbon by 2030. We have therefore targeted the carbon reduction projects, detailed in this plan, to address the largest sources of the Council’s emissions to achieve the greatest savings, as quickly…