Including the closely related term sustainable procurement.
… options that have been identified for each contributing facet of emissions that range from: enhancing sustainable procurement and implementing energy efficiency measures; through to, increased renewable energy generation and, conversion to an electric vehicle only fleet. Energy surveys were completed at a number of council owned buildings as detailed in section 5. These provided information…
… 2. Energy efficiency maximised through no and low cost measures 3. Replacement of ‘end of life’ equipment with most appropriate low carbon technologies 4. Remaining energy demand offset with renewable energy solutions aiming to consume as close to 100% of generated energy, therefore reducing use of ‘imported’ energy as much as possible 5. Finally consider procurement of ‘green’ energy…
… costs of installation will be needed for, ‘Return on Investment’ scenarios to be produced. This is considered within the recommended next steps as follows. In terms of the next 12 months priority should be given to the following activity: 6 1. Creation of Monitoring & Targeting processes across all elements of the Carbon Management Programme 2. Specification for procurement…
… to the 2030 target as can be realistically accommodated (taking in to account procurement timescales) in order to benefit from the latest technology available. 2.1.4 WATER 7.21 Tonnes CO2e 0.45% of total emissions While water itself does not emit carbon when used, the emissions from water are associated with its supply, disposal and treatment in the form of the energy used to pump…