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Track Edinburgh's progress to net zero

Track Council emissions

As signatories of the . We report each year on how we meet the . This is under the terms of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Our latest report on Council emissions covers activity for 2020-21. It shows that in the past year our based on 2019/20 levels.

Council emissions by source

Source: energy

This covers

  • fuels used to heat and power the Council’s operational buildings
  • street lighting
  • other uses such as
    • flood lighting
    • Christmas lighting.

Emissions per year from energy

  • 2014/2015: 97,723 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 88,439 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 80,979 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 74,967 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 62,657 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 58,297 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 52,663 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Source: fleet

This covers fuels used by the Council vehicles (including hire vehicles), ranging from small cars to bin lorries.

Emissions per year from fleet

  • 2014/2015: 7,058 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 7,025 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 7,046 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 6,713 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 8,519 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 6,671 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 6,287 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Staff travel

This covers staff mileage travelled for

  • business travel
  • taxis
  • rail
  • air travel.

Emissions per year from staff travel

  • 2014/2015: 1,648 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 1,260 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 1,194 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 1,247 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 1,462 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 1,956 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 612 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Waste

This covers all waste collected by the Council including household waste.

  • 2014/2015: 36,977 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 52,575 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 49,612 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 67,842 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 48,050 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 5,843 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 5,949 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Water

This covers the supply and treatment of water used by the Council.

  • 2014/2015: 658 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 568 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 574 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 575 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 824 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 736 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 157 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Total emissions from all sources per year

  • 2014/2015: 144,063 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2015/2016: 149,868 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2016/2017: 139,405 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2017/2018: 151,344 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2018/2019: 121,513 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2019/2020: 73,503 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
  • 2020/2021: 65,647 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

You can find more information about this in our  and on the Council’s .