Including the closely related terms streetlights, and lighting.
…. Major carbon reductions had been made in the areas of streetlighting, staff business travel, and fleet vehicle full use. Scope of baseline data The baseline for measuring future progress will be financial year April 2019 – March 2020. Dorset Council is one of the largest organisations in Dorset responsi- ble for a wide range of services across the County and approximately 1…
…% of Dorset’s carbon footprint. We own over 1,200 built assets, from office buildings, car parks and hotels. This is as well as running a fleet of over 400 vehicles, from cars to heavy goods vehicles, and manage 40,000 streetlights and 4,000 signs. Many of our 9,000 staff would normally commute to and from work and use their cars for business, typically travelling over 5 million business miles…
… a year. In addition, we work with partners and contractors to deliver key services, such as education and adult and social care. All these activities create greenhouse gas emissions from our use of energy to power and heat our buildings, as well as fuel used in fleet vehicles. This is in addition to our use of water, the disposal of our waste, the electricity to power streetlights…
…, fleet vehicles, and Dorset streetlights and road signs. INDIRECT INFLUENCE - emissions from the deliv- ery of services, such as Adult Care buildings oper- ated by Tricuro, Local Authority Schools, Leisure centres, and contracted out services, such as school transport and staff commuting. Dorset Council baseline emissions profile, initial breakdown 2019-2020 Figure 20 As a new…