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Monitoring and evaluation

The plan will be monitored as part of the council’s quarterly performance monitoring reports with specific updates provided every six months to the Executive Committee.

While a carbon resource is required to lead and co-ordinate these projects, reducing emissions requires action by officers across all departments. In addition an officer working group will be set-up to ensure progress is being made against the action plan, with monitoring and oversight by the Environment Policy Development Panel.

Our measures of success will be:

  • Reduction to zero of the council’s own carbon emissions
  • Reduction as far as possible towards net zero of district-wide carbon emissions (under scope of influence of local authorities)
  • Growth in size of the low carbon economy (to be defined)
  • Increased amount of renewable energy generation across the district
  • Increase in the amount of carbon captured through council action

Progress with the plan will be reviewed on at least an annual basis and reported to the Environment Policy Development Panel and the Executive Committee, with changes in technology and national policy announcements being taken into account in each update.  A full refresh will be carried out after five years.