We know that typically 80% of a Local Authorities carbon footprint comes from the supplies, services, and works it purchases.

All of our partners have declared a climate emergency and put in place strategies and plans to become carbon neutral by 2030.

We aim to support this by:

• Understanding the carbon footprint of the Council’s purchased goods, services and works to ensure our carbon reduction activity is targeted where it can have the biggest impact.
• Working with our elected members, staff, partners, and contractors to ensure that carbon reduction is fully embedded in our decision-making processes throughout the procurement cycle and low carbon solutions are implemented where appropriate.
• Collaborating with, and learning from organisations across the public, private and third sector to encourage and accelerate the transition to low carbon solutions.