East Midlands Carbon Management Programme

One of Climate East Midland’s targets was to make available the opportunity to undertake a carbon management programme to all local authorities, fire and rescue authorities and the Peak District National Park .

It was recognised that the full Carbon Trust LACM was not suitable for smaller authorities, so a lighter bespoke programme was developed. In particular relevant tools were selected for the authorities to use and the programme was tightly steered with ‘hands-on support’ being a strong feature.

Districts in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, and the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue service took part in a pilot during 2009/10. Almost £2 million year on year savings were identified from the pilot, and £250k worth of savings have already been implemented, with two authorities still to report.  The pilot was deemed to be successful and Phase 2, six districts from Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire, plus the Peak District National Park completed their programme in March 2012, having identified almost £1 million year on year potential savings.

All East Midlands local authorities, fire and rescue services and the Peak District National Park have now had the opportunity to take part in a Carbon Trust Carbon Management Programme, either through the Carbon Trust's main programme or funded by the East Midlands bespoke programme, through EM IEP.

In the East Midlands, the two phases have cost £170k and could genrate up to £3 million year on year savings, providing all of the measures can be funded and implemented. This programme is now being rolled out nationally by the Carbon Trust.

Presentations given during this programme can be downloaded

Contact Anne Gayfer [email protected] or 07554 439 131 

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1:1 Programme in Northants

In Northamptonshire, the county and district councils all participated in a joint project with the Energy Saving Trust in 2009 based on a cut down version of EST's One to One programme, which focused on the reduction of carbon emissions from the domestic sector.