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London Borough of Harrow

… sequestration or carbon reduction initiatives elsewhere. However, such an approach on its own does not achieve the widespread, systems level social and economic change that is required to meet the challenge of the climate emergency. Instead, the first priority at an organisational level should be to reduce and remove fossil fuel based emissions at source, working towards ultimately transitioning to zero…

… Data 3.16 The internationally adopted Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides a high level framework of three ‘scopes’ for categorising the sources of an area’s GHG emissions: Scope 1: direct emissions produced by sources in the area (eg road transport and gas heating); Scope 2: indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy used in the area (ie electricity); Scope 3…

… Taken together, the scale of the borough’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 current emissions (at over 650,000 tonnes of CO2e), show the level and pace of change that will be required across the borough in order to transition to a carbon neutral position. The next phase of work will be to map carbon reduction pathways to 2030 for both the organisation and the borough as a whole, which will help determine…

… Council’s Emission Reductions and Work to Date 3.25 Between 2012 and 2019 the Council has managed to decrease the core CO2 emissions attributable to its direct gas, fleet transport and electricity usage from 26,446 t CO2 pa (tonnes of CO2per annum) to 18,517 t CO2 pa, a fall of around 30%. 3.26 Recent savings measures have included: - A programme of large-scale solar installations…

… of planning permission and when payment of the contribution is due but are expected to grow as more developments are commenced / completed and thereby trigger contractual payments, to include at least an additional £90,000 during 20/21. 4.14 The Fund must be spent by the local authority on carbon emission reduction initiatives in the Borough. To facilitate delivery of some initial projects in 20…