Carbon footprint of Coventry City Council is one of the worst in England, report suggests
It has been discovered that Coventry City Council’s carbon footprint index is one of the worst in England and the United Kingdom, according to new figures released by the government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change. The league table assesses areas such as lighting, transport, buildings and other council services for their level of carbon emissions.
The council has criticised the findings, pointing to other figures from 2008-2009 which showed that Coventry was placed at the bottom fifth of all UK councils for total emissions, placing it ahead of 310 councils and behind just 66 others. The findings also show that there are stark geographical contrasts in the level of carbon emissions across UK council districts. For example, Coventry City Council’s annual carbon emissions were 57,000 tonnes, which is over 100 times the number of emissions of the much smaller council of East Cambridgeshire. Meanwhile, the council performing the worst in the country is currently Hertfordshire, which generates a whopping 0.18 tonnes of emissions per individual, per year.
Coventry City Council continued to defend its record and says that figures for local districts such as Stratford and Rugby were much smaller because those councils are given outside help from larger councils such as Warwickshire County Council. When taking this into consideration, it is estimated that figures for those councils are closer to 0.14 tonnes per individual, per year – which is nearer to the figure for Coventry City Council. A closer analysis of the data would also suggest that the figures for other cities that are similar in size and population to Coventry are also relatively similar.
The new coalition government is calling on Britons to make use of more ‘green’ and renewable energy resources as opposed to the over use of limited resources like white diesel, to help reduce the nation’s carbon footprint and make Britain more eco-friendly for the future.
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