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Blaby District Council

… better windows. Improve the management of energy usage across our assets to highlight and reduce energy use. Short term 6.2.3 Replace existing gas boilers at main offices with low carbon alternative and explore potential for the use of heat pumps. Short term 6.2.4 Identify ways and means of reducing carbon footprint and energy efficiency of our leased assets and use our influence…

…, be that in terms of reducing the use of single use plastics, improving air quality, encouraging the use of low emissions vehicles and improving energy efficiency. Now more than ever we must look forward rather than aiming to get back to normal and be ready to take the opportunities emerging from a ‘green recovery’. The collective response to Covid 19 has demonstrated our ability to take significant…

… determined by the upstream emissions: that is, from the production and distribution of the energy used to charge them. Recent research also suggests that the lifetime carbon emissions of EV’s are approximately half those of a conventional vehicle, with more efficient electric vehicles saving on the carbon produced in the batteries in just two or three years17. Further carbon savings can be made when…

… area, but in simple means the energy used to make and distribute goods, before such goods are actually used. Employee commuting – Whilst the emissions relating to employees travelling for the purposes of work, to and from meetings for example, is included within this report, the emissions arising from employees travelling from home to work are not included. This approach is accepted as part…

… of the scale of action needed to become carbon neutral and how much carbon can be saved by certain types of interventions if they were to be rolled out across the district. 15 Ultimately, for the District to meet its carbon neutral aspirations, we must increase our use of renewable energy, display better energy behaviours, use more efficient products and buildings, alongside an overall…