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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

… by 2040. A further commitment was made to work with partner agencies across the Liverpool City Region to reduce carbon emissions across the borough. 1.2 In making these commitments, the Council recognised that the impacts of climate change are now being seen across the world and there was no doubt that urgent action was needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming…

…; • Electricity use in street lighting; • Fuel use in fleet transport and hire vehicles; • Miles travelled by staff in their own vehicles on Council business; and • Miles travelled by staff using rail and air travel on Council business. 2.3 Not included were carbon emissions from waste and water use. This was due to issues with data collation. However, action was still taken to reduce emissions from…

… borough, building on existing programmes to reduce emissions further. Again, the Scrutiny Committee will have oversight of this work and have agreed a series of eight key themes to set a framework against which actions can be developed: (1) Protecting and enhancing Knowsley’s green spaces; (2) Reducing carbon emissions from transport in Knowsley; (3) Reducing carbon emissions from new…

… of local suppliers and green supply chain, including carbon emissions as part of evaluation criteria etc. Investigate the feasibility of introducing carbon emission reporting requirements into major contracts. Develop training for Commissioners on incorporating carbon reduction into tender specifications Promotion of key messages through Bertha, Team briefings, Chief Executive’s Briefing…

… and indicators to enable effective performance monitoring of progress with this Action Plan Publish an annual performance report on carbon emission reduction. Undertake an annual review of this Action Plan to ensure that it remains current, relevant and effective as work on the Climate Emergency Agenda evolves Establish a Climate Emergency Scrutiny Committee to monitor the Council’s performance…