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How to reduce carbon emissions in the local area: A practical guide to improving your score for NI 185 and NI 186
Date Last Updated: 21 July 2009
This guide provides a range of tips and hints, illustrated by examples of good practice, to show how authorities can reduce CO2 emissions – both corporately and from within their local areas. It is aimed at public sector managers who have responsibility for reducing the carbon footprint of their organisations and the local area. As such, English councils and their partners will find it particularly relevant to National Indicator 185, which measures the CO2 produced by local authority operations, and National Indicator 186 (per capita carbon emissions in the locality).
The guide brings together a range of good practice examples, including material provided by those authorities who had Beacon status for Tackling Climate Change, and other case studies that are freely available elsewhere on the internet. In addition, it draws on more detailed research into a number of authorities that have demonstrated success in this area over recent years, based on statistics of carbon emissions produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). These have been pulled together into three detailed case studies.
