2016-10-11 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 8 - Delegations of Authority

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 OCTOBER 2016




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              11 OCTOBER 2016

           Public lighting (not     As at August 2016 there are 5,665 public lights in the Noosa shire, with
           owned by Council)        the majority owned and operated by Energex. As Council has legislated
                                    responsibility to meet the cost of electricity consumption it has been
                                    included in the inventory and classified as scope 3 (contracted services).
           Contracted or leased _—_ Fuels used to deliver services such as:
           services
                                    «=  Waste collection.
                                    =   Concrete crushing at the landfill and Ringtail Quarry.
                                    =   Green waste mulching.
                                    ="  Mowing.
                                    =   Street sweeping.
                                    *   Capital works and asset maintenance activities.
                                    =   Noosa River Ferry (leased operation).
                                    «   Other contractor transport (not owned or managed by Council).
           Business travel          Travel by air where payment for an offset does not occur at the time of
                                    booking (could be covered by Council policy requiring this to occur).
                                    Rail travel.

           The current data available for scope 1 and 2 activities is considered satisfactory with much of it
           available from the providers e.g. energy and transport fuel accounts.
           Some of the Scope 3 activities are also supported by satisfactory data (waste activities and
           Energex owned public lighting), but there is a current gap in data for most other contracted
           services. Scope 3 activities represent a reasonable proportion of Council activities, so continued
           improvement is required in the collection of data to complete Council’s understanding of the GHG
           components of these activities. Improvements will occur via a range of actions but the first step is
           likely to be through the capture of information at the procurement stage and via contractual
           arrangements.

           6.2.1    Baseline GHG emissions footprint
           As a first step in establishing the Strategy, Council engaged Beyond Zero Emissions Inc., a climate
           change solutions think-tank, to undertake an independent audit of Council’s operations and
           services, to develop an emissions inventory and to determine a baseline GHG emissions footprint.
           No estimate has been made for any potential growth in emissions e.g. for new or expanded
           buildings or facilities, new public lighting through Council works or contributed assets, or expansion
           of services that may include embedded emissions.
           The assessment indicates total emissions being 10,713 tonnes CO2e based on available data for
           2015-16. Emissions are shown by sector in Figure 3 below and by scope in Figure 4. Data for fuel
           utilised for waste collection services was excluded due to probity issues as the new waste tender
           was under evaluation at the time of the audit. So the baseline figure will need to be adjusted after
           the waste contract is awarded (post December 2016). The baseline figure will also need to be re-
           calculated over time as data capture is improved (particularly for scope 3 emissions).

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