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Leicester City Council

…. The strategy identifies aims and objectives for achieving the vision, with an initial focus on areas where the council can have the most impact. The accompanying Climate Emergency Action Plan reflects these areas, with ambitious programmes set out across six themes. These programmes include: At home – reducing carbon emissions and energy bills for council tenants by fitting insulation, energy-saving…

… Eco Schools programme, BESS (Built Environment in Schools Service) and other projects. Looking beyond these specific projects and programmes, we are taking steps to make sure that our response to the Climate Emergency sits at the heart of how we operate as a council, including the development of an Energy Strategy for the council. Staff and councillors are being trained in ‘carbon literacy…

… to replace those discarded Looking at Leicester’s emissions caused by our direct energy use in the city from gas, electricity, diesel, petrol and other fuels, the most recent government figures show that collectively we were responsible for 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions4 in 2017. This worked out at 3.7 tonnes per person, which is similar to levels in other comparable UK cities5…

… of this document we are including other greenhouse gases too. 5 2017 per capita emissions were 3.5t in Nottingham, 3.7t in Sheffield, 4.0t in Leeds and 3.2t in Bristol. Source: Department for Business, Environment and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Leicester’s Climate Emergency Strategy: April 2020 to March 2023 Page 16 of 57 Figure 2: Sources of Leicester’s CO2 emissions from energy use…

… in the themed sections in Our Strategy for the City. The council has carried out a wide range of actions and projects, dating back to the 1990s and even earlier, to play our part at the local level in reducing emissions. Some more recent examples, and their impacts, are highlighted below. Leicester’s Climate Emergency Strategy: April 2020 to March 2023 Page 18 of 57 • CUTTING ENERGY USE…