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Carbon Management Plan Outcomes

Meeting: 15/09/2015 - Communities, Housing and Environment Committee (Item 34)

34 Carbon Management Plan Outcomes pdf icon PDF 90 KB

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Decision:

1.  That the outcomes of the Carbon Management Plan be noted; and

 

2.  That the Heritage, Culture and Leisure Committee be recommended to consider the targets in relation to the Leisure Centre as set out in the Carbon Management Plan.

 

 

Minutes:

Dr Stuart Maxwell, Senior Scientific Officer, Environmental Protection introduced the Carbon Management Plan Outcomes report.  He explained that the Council had introduced a Carbon Management Plan in 2009 covering the period from 2009 to 2015.

 

The Committee was informed that:

 

  • The plan had committed the Council to a target of reducing its CO2 emissions by 20% from the 2008/2009 level by the end of the 2014/15 financial year;

 

  • In 2013/14 the Council’s CO2 emissions were reduced by 18.4%; and

 

  •  In 2014/15 there was an increase of 4.3%.  The primary cause of this increase was the breakdown of the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant at Mote Park Leisure Centre which resulted in a large increase in energy consumption.  This in turn affected the cumulative target reached at the end of the 6 year period.

 

In response to member’s questions it was explained that the CHP plant at the Leisure Centre was quite old.  The Committee felt that the Leisure Centre target should be looked at in more detail, resolving that a recommendation be made to the appropriate Committee.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.  That the outcomes of the Carbon Management Plan be noted; and

 

2.  That the Heritage, Culture and Leisure Committee be recommended to consider the targets in relation to the Leisure Centre as set out in the Carbon Management Plan.

 

  Voting:  9 – For  0 – Against  0 – Abstentions