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Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Waste heat "will be zero carbon"

Another positive from the Local Government Association Climate Change conference. I asked the Audit Commission's carbon gurus about the use of heat from electricity generation and was told that it is almost certainly to be counted as zero carbon against Local Authority targets. In other words the carbon will be counted 100% against the electricity user rather than divvied up between the two.

This will provide a huge incentive for councils to use waste heat energy in social housing and municipal buildings when the new Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) reporting and the Carbon Reduction Commitment hit in 2009 and 2010 respectively. The CAA will also measure emissions from non-social housing and commercial properties.

Maybe we will see district heating rise again, rather than squandering this easy source of energy.

Labels: district heating, energy, local authorities

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Wednesday, 31 October 2007

New Course: Sustainable Development for Local Authorities

We are proud to announce that we have created a special version of our Introduction to Sustainable Development course for Local Authorities.

The new one-day course has all the technical content of our standard Sustainable Development course, but the case studies and exercises are concerned with local government practice. It is suitable for council officers across all departments and functions and, indeed, councillors. Topics include:

- What is Sustainable Development?
- Environmental Sustainability
- Socio-economic Sustainability
- Planning & Delivering Sustainability

We guarantee that you will not be disappointed!

Labels: local authorities, sustainable development, training

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