…. Governance 27 11. Procurement 30 12. Land Use 32 13. Ecology 36 14. Partners 39 15. Strategies and Policies 40 2 Climate and Nature Emergency Plan / Gwynedd Council 1. Introduction Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times, and calls for co-ordinated action from each one of us. As a result of the dramatic change…
… will take in order to change those services that we directly provide. The activities and projects that we will undertake to try and become a net zero council have been listed under the themes: Building and Energy, Mobility and Transport, Waste, Governance, Procurement, Land Use, Ecology, and all can be explored in chapters 7 - 13. It is not, therefore, the ambition of this plan to create…
… Council’s Annual Performance Report, and following publication we will also review this plan to ensure that we are on the right track to realise our ambition by 2030. We have already collected data on carbon emissions and sequestration for the years 2019/20 and 2020/21. We have some reservations about the methodology used, especially for measuring the procurement upstream and downstream chains…
… data collection methodology as set by Welsh Government, which leads us to measure many more activities in addition to those we measured up until 2019 – e.g. water use, biomass, emissions further up the supply chain (well to tank), staff commute, emissions from the process of producing goods or services we purchase (procurement), and we also cannot claim credit for PV energy exported…
… to the national grid. Even though the council doesn’t control many of these additional activities, we must now report on all the emission generated by them. The emissions generated by procurement are calculated based on the monetary value of the goods or services we purchase. Put simply, the more we spend the higher our carbon emissions, regardless of what the goods are or how they are produced…