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Worcester City Council

… efficiency measures are also being procured. 6.13 Work is ongoing with Worcester Community Trust to identify options for the decarbonisation of the Council’s community centre buildings which are operated by the Trust, and the emission from these centres is now being included within the Council’s carbon emissions figure. WCT have commissioned and received Environmental energy reports for all…

… for replacement. 6.8 Activities are taking place to encourage employees to use active transport where possible to reduce the emissions from grey fleet. Employees, and members, have been encouraged to use the Beryl bikes to travel around the city, following the successful launch of this scheme. 6.9 A further project to reduce emissions from the grey fleet has recently been approved and procurement…

… will be offered each year, with more specialist training targeted to specific job roles. Appropriate training will also be offered to Members. Outsourced emissions 6.11 Emissions from the outsourced leisure centres are now included within the Council’s figures. These emissions account for 33% of the Council’s carbon footprint. Perdiswell is the biggest contributor to this, as expected as the largest…

… leisure centre and the only one with a swimming pool within the Council’s portfolio (the swimming pool alone is responsible for one third of the leisure centre emissions). 6.12 The Sport England grant allocated £195,000 towards the installation of solar PV at Perdiswell Leisure Centre. This solar PV array will reduce emissions at this leisure centre by around 20tCO2e. Additional energy…

… on the total number of installations completed in the city resulting from this year’s campaign will be presented in the next update report. Emissions from transport 7.3 The Beryl bike share scheme successfully launched in the city on 17 June and (as of 7 October), over 22,000 journeys have been made on the bikes. This totals 62,000 km travelled, saving an estimated two tonnes of CO2e…