Babergh District Council - Greenhouse gas emissions

Babergh District Council (BDC) recognises its significant role in developing improved resilience to Climate Change, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its own estate. The Council’s Strategic Plan (2008-2018) identifies a set of priorities for delivering ‘A greener and cleaner Babergh’. One of these is to reduce its GHG emissions.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission summary report

Emission category	Element consumed	tonnes of CO2e
		Financial year 2010/11	Base year 2009/10
Scope 1 - direct emissions
	Diesel	9.1	10.6
	Petrol	1.6	2.6
	Heating Oil	11.1	10.5
	Natural Gas	768.6	648.1
	sub total	790.4	671.8
Scope 2 - indirect emissions
	Electricity	995.2	1,252.3
	sub total	995.2	1,252.3
Total annual gross emissions		1,785.6	1,924.1
Carbon Offsets		0	0
Green tariff		0	0
Total annual net emissions		1,785.6	1,924.1
to be read in conjunction with statement of supporting explanations (see link below)

Statement of supporting explanations (PDF, 36kb)