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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

… collaborating on the Climate Emergency agenda – has been established to support the delivery of NZ30 and NZ40 targets. Introduce carbon impact assessments for all cabinet reports, ensuring consideration and mitigation of potential emissions associated with proposals is embedded across the Council. Officers require support to develop their understanding of emission impacts. Continue to develop…

… baseline data i.e. on emissions in areas such as transport and housing. Building baseline data will support the Council’s evidence base to identify and act on environmental strategic priorities. Understanding and using emission data can be highly specialised; developing this expertise is difficult with existing capacity and may require additional resources. ROTHERHAM COUNCIL: CLIMATE…

… commissioned to reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency. Decarbonising buildings • The Council has reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions in operational buildings by 54% and streetlighting by 73% (against 2014/15 baseline). Over 80 projects have been commissioned and over £1.5m invested in energy efficiency measures, saving over £390k each year and reducing annual emissions by over…

… technology and engineering fields, as well as market developments effecting affordability. These developments are likely to present further opportunities for decarbonising the Councils fleet and transport across Rotherham. Develop cycling strategy • Draft cycling strategy to be presented to Cabinet in March 2021. This is estimated to reduce overall emissions from transport by ~2% across…

… efficiency, and support the monitoring of vehicle use. As well as reducing emissions, improved fuel efficiency will reduce fuel costs. Continue to develop a timeline for electric vehicle conversion, or for conversion to other low emission technologies where electric is not currently financially viable, e.g. biogas. EVs are typically significantly higher cost than combustion vehicles…