Including 4 closely related terms such as energy use, energy generation, and energy generation.
… emissions from across the county, not those which we are directly responsible for ourselves. This includes actions to help reduce emissions for example through active travel, waste and recycling and education. Objectives: 1 Reduce energy use and increase renewable energy across the county 2 Reduce waste and what we buy by encouraging people to reduce, re-use and recycle more 3 Encourage active travel…
… 48,145 48,576 44,248 Reduction on previous year - 10.6%-0.9%8.9% Reduction from 2019/20 baseline - 10.6%9.8%17.8% Avoided emissions- 1,254 - 1,325 - 1,124 - 1,029 Renewable energy generation Number of FTE staff…
…, as the following graph shows. Emissions in 2022/23 were 17.8% lower than the 2019/20 baseline. The graph also shows that a significant proportion of the Council’s emissions are from the supply chain – in other words from goods and services which we procure. Annex 1 gives more details about how the council’s carbon emissions are measured and reported. 1124 tonnes of CO2 were avoided through renewable energy…
… generation, from solar panels on Council buildings and from the Council’s solar farm at Oak Grove Farm in Crick. Monmouthshire County Council Tonnes of CO2e per year Source: Monmouthshire County Council return to Welsh Government for 2022/23 Nature recovery It is important that the climate emergency and the nature emergency are considered hand in hand, since the two are so interlinked…