Including the closely related term sustainable procurement.
… their household energy costs. Renewable energy generation: generating renewable energy for direct use in Council owned buildings. Sustainable procurement: ensuring that carbon reduction and sustainability is evaluated as part of all goods and services procured by the Council, encouraging our suppliers to minimise their environmental impact. Transport: minimising staff car travel by encouraging…
… buildings. It also puts in place actions to reduce the carbon footprint of contractors through establishing carbon reduction plans with existing contractors and updating procurement guidance to ensure carbon reduction and sustainability is included in new all contract evaluations. Area Initial Action Measure / target Cost Carbon Impact Own operations (O) or District wide (D) Timescale…
… the national grid. Beyond this, a further 3,389 tCO2e p.a. reduction must be achieved to meet the 2030 carbon neutral target. The largest emissions source is from buildings leased by the Council to third party operators, which accounts for 42% of emissions. These are Leatherhead Leisure Centre, Dorking Leisure Centre and Meadowbank sports ground. Emissions from procured goods…
… and treatment of waste in council operations Emissions from the supply and treatment of water consumed by the Council’s operations Emissions from procured goods and services Emissions from energy consumed in buildings leased to a third party operator The scope does not include emissions that the council has no control over or are not directly related to the Council’s operations, including…
… emissions from employee commuting and investments, although MVDC will still seek to reduce the carbon emissions from these areas. However, it should be noted that some data for procured goods and services was not readily available and proxy data was used instead. Since the production of the carbon footprint analysis, work is being focused on improving the quality of the data for future reporting…