Including 4 closely related terms such as manage, management, and energy use.
… underway are: ● A review of all council properties to identify cost effective paths to reduce emissions from our buildings, with the aim for them to be carbon neutral by 2030 ● An upgrade programme to make Kingston’s street lighting 100% LED by 2023, reducing the amount of energy used to power them by around 50% ● Proposals to achieve ‘BREEAM Excellent’ status in our redevelopment of the Kingfisher…
… positions focussed on energy management and sustainable construction, working to a new head of service responsible for the sustainability of our estate ● Redesigned facilities management to focus on social and environmental outcomes, including removal of single use plastics, reducing use of harmful chemicals and more sustainable maintenance approaches ● Baselined and benchmarked the emissions for each…
… supply chain, changing how we invest to influence the financial markets and changing how we work, day to day, as employees of the Council. We have already taken many large actions in this area since declaration, but there is more to do. Since the declaration we have: ● Funded a programme to move all of Kingston’s street lights to 100% LED by 2023. This will reduce the amount of energy used for street…
… and water. It also includes capital goods for the construction of new homes. We will be developing our approach to energy management and data capture during the life of this action plan, and as we gather more data our baseline will continue to be updated. As set out above, Scope 3 carbon emissions are not under our direct control. We are still refining the baseline of our Scope 3 emissions, where data…