Purpose

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

Content

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.