Decision details

A report detailing progress against actions from the Climate Change & Air Quality Strategy Progress Report for the 2022/23 reporting period.

The Climate Change and Air Quality Strategy 2022-2023 Progress Report provided an update on the significant progress made against the aims, objectives, and actions set out in the Council’s Climate Change and Air Quality Strategy within the second year following its adoption on 19 October 2021.

Details of 51 activities were provided, many of which addressed several actions in the Strategy. These had contributed to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) decreasing by 7.73% from 2019 to 2021; nitrogen dioxide concentrations staying within the annual mean value in 2022 (apart from one location where new diffusion tube monitoring was established within the Friarage Road Air Quality Management Area in 2022); and, the Council’s GHG emissions being 73.7% lower in ‘22/’23 compared to its emissions from 1990.

The Council was responsible for 5,401 tCO2e (net emissions) in ‘22/’23.  It had kept comfortably within the Council’s carbon allocation for ‘22/’23 (6,953 tCO2e) and was on track to reduce the Council’s carbon emissions by at least 75% by 2030.

RESOLVED –

That the progress made in 2022-23 against the aims, objectives and actions in the Council’s Climate Change and Air Quality Strategy be NOTED.