The Manager of Environmental Sustainability submitted a report to approve the next five year phase of the Council’s Carbon Management Plan (CMP) 2017-2022. The current five year phase of the CMP concludes at the end of March 2017.

Cllr Tanner, Board Member for A Clean Green Oxford said the Council had been very successful at reducing its carbon emissions by 5% each year.  This plan commits us to continue this approach; however we will need to borrow to bring forward modernising projects to continue the work.

The Service Manager for Environmental Sustainability said there are several transformation schemes planned. The Council plans to invest in renewable energy efficiency measures in leisure facilities such as installing heat pumps and installing a canopy over the car parks.

The Energy management project is a prescribed framework with set measures. It means we can compare ourselves against other organisations that use the same framework.

The City Executive Board resolved to:

1.    Adopt the new Carbon Management Plan as detailed in Appendix 1

2.    Note that now straight-forward and accessible carbon reduction measures have been implemented through use of the Salix and Salix Plus funds, there will be the need to make financial bids for external support for larger capital projects, additional match funding requests or innovative approaches of using community funding models with shared financial advantages;

3.    Endorse the phased development of an Energy Management system (ISO 50001) over the next 5 years across all key significant energy use areas at the Council (e.g. Offices, Depots, Leisure Centres, Fleet fuel consumption).