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As signatories of the . We report each year on how we meet the . This is under the terms of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. It shows that in the past year our emissions fell by 2.27% compared to the previous year and are significantly lower than our 2018 baseline.

Council emissions by source

Source: energy

This covers

• fuels used to heat and power the Council’s operational buildings
• street lighting
• other uses such as
  • flood lighting
  • Christmas lighting.

Emissions per year from energy

• 2017/2018: 74,967 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2018/2019: 62,657 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2019/2020: 58,297 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2020/2021: 52,663 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2021/2022: 51,552 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2022/2023: 48,222 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2023/2024: 50,049 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2024/2025: 50,588 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Source: fleet

This covers fuels used by the Council vehicles (including hire vehicles), ranging from small cars to bin lorries.

Emissions per year from fleet

• 2017/2018: 6,713 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2018/2019: 8,519 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2019/2020: 6,671 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2020/2021: 6,287 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2021/2022: 6,290 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2022/2023: 6,252 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2023/2024: 6,066 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2024/2025: 5,976 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Staff travel

This covers staff mileage travelled for

• business travel
• taxis
• rail
• air travel.

Emissions per year from staff travel

• 2017/2018: 1,247 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2018/2019: 1,462 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2019/2020: 1,956 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2020/2021: 612 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2021/2022: 781 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2022/2023: 871 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2023/2024: 878 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2024/2025: 784 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Waste

This covers all waste collected by the Council including household waste.

• 2017/2018: 67,842 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2018/2019: 48,050 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2019/2020: 5,843 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2020/2021: 5,949 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2021/2022: 6,725 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2022/2023: 5,539 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2023/2024: 5,271 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2024/2025: 3,535 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Total emissions from all sources per year

• 2017/2018: 151,344 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2018/2019: 121,513 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2019/2020: 73,503 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2020/2021: 65,647 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2021/2022: 65,527 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2022/2023: 61,056 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2023/2024: 62,189 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
• 2024/2025: 61,036 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

You can find more information about this in our  and on the Council’s .