Including 4 closely related terms such as leisure centres, leisure centre, and town centre.
… officers and councillors as well as 17 local businesses and 18 community champions 300 pledges made 450 tonnes CO2e savings estimated Decarbonisation plans Delivered for 30 public buildings including: 15 schools 5 leisure centres Business support 17 local small businesses supported to reduce carbon emissions through our Business Carbon Support pilot programme 15 businesses have received Green…
…. Over time, this will also result in fewer NHS interventions, saving money. Another example would be planting trees within town centres, which can lock in carbon dioxide, enhance biodiversity, improve people’s well-being, reduce air pollution, reduce temperatures, and reduce the risk of flooding. With often limited budgets, it is helpful to be able to prioritise actions which tackle…
… climate actions can reduce costs – for example saving money on energy bills – and others can have significant benefits to the local economy. For example: ● create new jobs in the low carbon economy ● support a just transition by delivering training to those in high carbon industries ● encourage people to spend more time in town centres ● create a better environment for local businesses…
… its own organisational emissions. Each year we have improved the completeness of our inventory by including more information as it becomes available. For example, last year we included information on our leisure centres, and this year we have calculated data from our Home to School Transport (HTST) scheme for the first time. In the future, we hope to be able to include more information from…
… transport Scope 3 Indirect emissions (everything else) 26% Academies 12% Purchased materials 6% Outsourced activities 3% Other3% Externally managed buildings 3% Employee commuting North Somerset Council Climate Emergency Action Plan 23 Emissions from leisure centres have returned to pre-COVID-19 levels and some buildings have shown an increase as the advice was to keep windows…