Council Carbon Emissions

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Introduction

Our carbon emissions inventory has been developed in accordance with the World Resources Institute GHG Protocol, the internationally recognised and established methodology for calculating organisational carbon footprints. The Royal Borough has taken an operational control approach to calculating its emissions. Emissions represented include: direct emissions from sources controlled by the borough i.e. fuels consumed at council owned premises and from owned vehicles; emissions from purchased energy produced off site i.e. electricity; and other emissions produced indirectly i.e. mileage undertaken by staff travelling on business.

We commit to expanding the scope of our carbon footprint to include emissions produced indirectly because of our activities e.g. waste arising from council premises.


What is measured

Electricity, gas and oil emissions arise from the following operations:
Street lighting
Corporate buildings
Carparks
Libraries
Schools
Parks, cemeteries and pumping station supplies
Day care and community centres


Transport emissions arise from:

The council fleet of pool cars
Mileage undertaken by staff travelling on business


What isn't measured

Due to the fact they fall outside of our operational control, we will not be including the following:

Leisure centres operated by a third party
Investment properties where we have no control over what activities are undertaken in the buildings
Emissions from contractors as they will be responsible for monitoring and managing their own emissions


While these are considered out of scope for the council’s own direct emissions, it should be noted that we recognise the need to do all we can and will work with procurement to look at ways we can contractually require our contractors/operators to tackle the climate emergency and reduce carbon emissions. Carbon emissions calculated most recently represent the council’s carbon baseline, against which future performance will be compared.


The figures

For 2018/19, the figures are as follows are set out here below:

Gas1,415 tCO2e
Oil278 tCO2e
Transport74 tCO2e
Electricity2,818 tCO2e
Total4,585 tCO2e


Introduction

Our carbon emissions inventory has been developed in accordance with the World Resources Institute GHG Protocol, the internationally recognised and established methodology for calculating organisational carbon footprints. The Royal Borough has taken an operational control approach to calculating its emissions. Emissions represented include: direct emissions from sources controlled by the borough i.e. fuels consumed at council owned premises and from owned vehicles; emissions from purchased energy produced off site i.e. electricity; and other emissions produced indirectly i.e. mileage undertaken by staff travelling on business.

We commit to expanding the scope of our carbon footprint to include emissions produced indirectly because of our activities e.g. waste arising from council premises.


What is measured

Electricity, gas and oil emissions arise from the following operations:
Street lighting
Corporate buildings
Carparks
Libraries
Schools
Parks, cemeteries and pumping station supplies
Day care and community centres


Transport emissions arise from:

The council fleet of pool cars
Mileage undertaken by staff travelling on business


What isn't measured

Due to the fact they fall outside of our operational control, we will not be including the following:

Leisure centres operated by a third party
Investment properties where we have no control over what activities are undertaken in the buildings
Emissions from contractors as they will be responsible for monitoring and managing their own emissions


While these are considered out of scope for the council’s own direct emissions, it should be noted that we recognise the need to do all we can and will work with procurement to look at ways we can contractually require our contractors/operators to tackle the climate emergency and reduce carbon emissions. Carbon emissions calculated most recently represent the council’s carbon baseline, against which future performance will be compared.


The figures

For 2018/19, the figures are as follows are set out here below:

Gas1,415 tCO2e
Oil278 tCO2e
Transport74 tCO2e
Electricity2,818 tCO2e
Total4,585 tCO2e


Page last updated: 14 Oct 2022, 11:29 AM