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Our sustainability targets

 

St Edmundsbury Borough Council has adopted a set of headline targets to focus effort to improve our performance.

We monitor and regularly report on our performance.  Our latest annual performance report is Annual Performance Report 2010-11 (PDF 260Kb).

 
Theme Our target

By when

 Our baseline and target
Energy Reduce carbon emissions from all existing buildings by 60%

April 2025 

2010 baseline - 4,897 tonnes of CO2
 

Water This target is now directly linked to the above target of an overall CO2 reduction of 60%

April 2025 

2010 baseline - 4,897 tones of CO2

Pollution prevention No incidents leading to formal action by regulatory bodies 

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Biodiversity Carry out habitat improvements on 10 sites managed by the Council per annum

April 2013

2009 baseline - No programme in place
Target - 1 positive biodiversity outcome to be demonstrated for each of ten sites surveyed annually

Procurement Implement key finding of the Suffolk Local Authority Sustainable Procurement Review

April 2011

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Waste Recycle, reuse, recover 50% or more of each waste stream where safe to do so.

April 2013

2009 baseline - only office waste covered
Transport

This target, to be achieved by reducing car miles and increasing efficiency of commercial fleet, is now directly linked to the energy and water target of  60% reduction in CO2 emissions.

April 2025

2010 baseline - 4,897 tonnes of CO2