Oldham Council Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Government is requesting that each local authority publishes its own greenhouse gas
emissions (GHG) report locally on its own website. This is to support the localism agenda by
ensuring local authorities are accountable to their local people for their green house gas
emissions. The Government’s request can be seen here
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/local_auth/ni185/ni185.aspx
The council will report its emissions annually as we work to reduce our emissions by 15% by
March 2014.
Table 1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Local Authority Own Estate and Operations 2012/13
GHG emissions 2012/13 in kg of CO2e
Specific exclusions/inclusions
SCOPE 1*
10562930
Fuels consumption > Public
Facilities/Offices and Education
Excluding Oldham Community Leisure estate, trading estates (let estate) and
Academy status schools
10562930
Total Fuels Consumption
Total Owned transport
2562313
13125243
Total scope 1
SCOPE 2*
11154393
Energy Indirect > Public Facilities/Offices
and Education
Excluding Oldham Community Leisure estate and trading estates (let estate)
and Academy status schools
5310331
Energy Indirect > Street Lighting
Total Purchased Electricity
16464724
16464724
Total scope 2
SIGNIFICANT SCOPE 3 *
Business transport (Staff vehicle use
delivering our business)
380329
380329
Total significant scope 3
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Total GHG emissions in scope
2012/13 in kg of CO2e
Total GHG Tonnes CO2e
2012/13
29970297
29,970
Table Commentary
1. Authority Information: Oldham Council
2. Reporting period: 2012/13
3. Approach: We have followed the Government’s guidance (‘Guidance on how to measure and report your greenhouse
gas emissions’, Defra) on how to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions.
4. Organisational boundary (data collected): We have used the financial control approach to determine the activities on
which we have collected data i.e. we are collecting data on activities for which we direct the financial and operating
policies.
5. *Operational scopes: We have measured our scope 1 (emissions released by activities owned or controlled by our
organisation), scope 2 (Emissions released into the atmosphere associated with our consumption of purchased electricity,
heat, steam and cooling) and significant scope 3 (emissions that are a consequence of our actions) emissions.
6. Our data currently excludes waste GHG reporting data
7. Base Year: Our baseline year is 2010/11.
8. Targets: The aim of the current programme is to set out how the Council will achieve a further 15% reduction in its scope
1 and 2 carbon emissions by Summer 2014.
9. Data Management: The council’s environmental management system was accredited to ISO14001 in August 2012 and
will help the council record and monitor GHG emission data.
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