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13. What else are we doing to reduce our emissions?
In addition to addressing the largest share of our footprint, our wider internal decarbonidation projects have delivered the below savings:
4.4% reduction in use of fuel by our
fleet in 2021/22 compared to 2013/14
Next steps
As flagged later in this document, now that we have addressed or are working on the largest parts of our carbon footprint, we will
revisit and update our carbon reduction plan. This will require a focus on more challenging areas to reduce.
As our work has focused on 'scope 1 & 2 emissions' (fuel, our vehicles, electricity, and heat) we will also consider our ability to address
wider 'scope 3*' emissions much of which are not currently measured within our own emissions footprint but where we may be able to
enable a positive difference. These include: Purchased goods and services, business travel, employee commuting, waste disposal,
transportation and distribution, investments, leased assets.
We will also consider the need for investing in carbon positive and sequestration projects to offset elements of our footprint that we
can't fully decarbonise, such as emissions related to drawing energy from the national grid. The focus will be on investing in local
carbon positive / sequestration projects, know as 'insetting'.
*See www.carbontrust.com for more information on 'scope 3' emissions
