Carbon monitoring

Shropshire Council began monitoring its carbon footprint in 2019 (baseline year). This carbon monitoring report updates the council's carbon footprint highlighting any changes from the baseline and previous year’s monitoring. The report addresses the following questions:

1. What is the latest corporate carbon footprint?
2. How has this changed since 2019?
3. How has this changed from that reported in 2024?
4. What projects and initiatives have contributed to the change?
5. What other factors have had an influence?
6. Is Shropshire Council ‘on track’ towards its corporate target for 2030?
7. What co-benefits are there: revenue cost savings, public health, air quality and biodiversity?
8. How has Shropshire Council contributed to wider activity to decarbonise Shropshire?
9. What additional activities such as environmental and social governance are planned?

As well as reporting carbon performance, the report provides a summary of live and proposed projects necessary to tackle the “carbon gap”. It is crucial to adopt an evidence-led approach and support  service functions  identified with the biggest carbon footprint.

Since 2019, Shropshire Council has achieved an average annual carbon footprint reduction of 5%. To reach our goal of net zero by 2030, the organisation must ramp up its decarbonisation efforts to 16% annually. Current progress however, aligns with the UK's commitment, as reaffirmed at the recent COP30 conference in Brazil.