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Salford tops carbon reduction league

Posted by Tony Flynn on 9th December 2011 at 05:02 PM
Salford tops carbon reduction league
Salford City Council is Greater Manchester’s leading Local Authority when it comes to reducing carbon emissions.

Tied in joint position with Manchester City Council, Salford has been placed joint 88th out of 2,103 organisations in the first Annual Carbon Reduction Performance league table.

This impressively puts Salford City Council in the top four participating UK Local Authorities out of a possible 193.

Published by the Environment Agency, the ‘Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme’ is a mandatory UK Government carbon trading scheme, under which all participating organisations need to monitor, report and reduce their annual carbon emissions.

For Salford City Council this applies to all CO2 emissions from non-domestic buildings such as offices, libraries, leisure centres and schools, where a number of carbon reduction projects have taken place or are currently being implemented.

In the council’s own properties these include: loft and cavity wall insulation including double glazing; voltage optimisation; heating and lighting controls; smart metering of energy for public buildings; automatic power down of PCs and monitors; variable speed drives on lifts and the replacement of oil fired boilers project.

The total reported carbon emissions for Salford City Council for 2010/11 were 33,453 tonnes.

Councillor Antrobus, Lead Member for Planning at Salford City Council said:

“Salford City Council’s Carbon Management Plan was launched in 2008 to reduce the city’s carbon footprint and adapt to the inevitable impacts of global climate change. We are committed to this agenda because it is good for the environment and also saves council taxpayers money by cutting energy bills.

“These latest results continue to reflect just how seriously we are taking the challenge to reduce our carbon emissions. Over the past two years we have made it our mission to smartly manage energy consumption, installing devices in all major buildings to improve data monitoring – something that will help us hit our target of reducing emissions by 40% by 2013.

“In addition we recently picked up the Carbon Saver Gold Standard, which recognises good practice in energy management and reducing carbon emissions.”

Source: Salford Council.


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