…, 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…
… made in our Climate Emergency declaration in 2019. The actions in this plan focus on the themes set out in the Welsh Government Decarbonisation Route Map[footnoteRef:15] of: Buildings, Mobility and Transport, Procurement and Land Use. [15: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-07/a-route-map-for-decarbonisation-across-the-welsh-public-sector.pdf ] Objectives: 1 Strategic…
… – Support the collection of data and resource management 2 Buildings – Reduce and remove the carbon emissions from our built environment 3 Transport – Reduce and remove the carbon emissions from operational, business and commuting emissions 4 Procurement– Reduce in-direct emissions from the supply chain 5 Land Use– Reduce emissions from land use polices and how the Council uses its land…
… reporting to Cabinet on progress. Annex 1 - The Councils Carbon Emissions – How they are calculated and reported 1. Reporting Methodology Welsh Government (WG) have an ambition for the public sector to be collectively net zero by 2030. This will require MCC to cut both our direct emissions from energy and our built estate and the indirect emissions arising from service delivery and procurement…
… activities. To monitor progress against this target, Welsh Government have required the Welsh Public Sector to submit annual carbon emission returns since 19/20 . The reporting model is divided into three emission scopes as follows. Scope 1 - are direct emissions from operations that are owned or controlled by the Council. Scope 2 – indirect emissions from purchased electricity, heating and cooling…