Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Thanet District Council's Estate and Operations

Thanet District Council has implemented a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Thanet for 2009 – 2011.  As part of this strategy the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by the Council’s operations are to be reviewed annually.  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has also requested that each local authority publishes its own GHG report for 2009/10 and 2010/2011 on its own website.  A report has been produced using ‘Guidance on how to measure and report your greenhouse gas emissions’ provided by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural affairs and DECC. 

The Guidance uses the most widely accepted approach to identify and categorise emission releasing activities into three groups.  The three groups are:

• Scope 1 (Direct emissions) – Activities owned or controlled by your organisation that release emissions straight into the atmosphere. They are direct emissions.  Examples of scope 1 emissions include emissions from combustion in owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, vehicles, emissions from chemical production in owned or controlled process equipment.
  
  
• Scope 2 (Energy indirect) – Emissions being released into the atmosphere associated with your consumption of purchased electricity, heat, steam and cooling.  These are indirect emissions that are a consequence of your organisation’s activities but which occur at sources you do not own or control.
  
  
• Scope 3 (Other indirect) - Emissions that are a consequence of your actions, which occur at sources which you do not own or control and which are not classed as scope 2 emissions.  Examples of scope 3 emissions are business travel by means not owned or controlled by your organisation, waste disposal or purchased materials or fuels.

Next GHG Emissions Report 2010 - 2011

Linda Taylor

E-mail: linda.taylor@thanet.gov.uk

Tel: 01843 577031