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York Emissions Inventory Report 2025

This report presents the latest York Emissions Inventory Report (2025) for the reporting years 2022 and 2023. The data is used to monitor progress against the council ambition to achieve net zero carbon for the city by 2030. To be considered by Cllr Kent (Executive Member for Environment and Climate Emergency).

Additional documents:

Annex A - UK local authority and regional ghg emissions statistics_2022 and 2023, item 45 PDF 78 KB

Decision:

Resolved:

i. Approved the York Emissions Inventory Report for publication.

ii. Approved the adoption of the UK local authority and regional emissions dataset as the reporting methodology for future city-wide Emissions Inventories.

Reason: To provide transparency of progress against the ambition for York to be net zero by 2030.

Minutes:

The Head of Carbon Reduction introduced the report. He confirmed that the Council would expect a slight change in methodology moving from the SCATTER tool, which was been discontinued, to the UK local authority and regional emissions dataset. He confirmed the accuracy of the data would remain the same. He also confirmed that city wide emissions continued to decline and were now below levels in 2020 which had been a low year for emissions in part due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Executive Member for Environment and Climate Emergency enquired about the work undertaken with partners around the city to reduce emissions. It was confirmed that the Council had relaunched the York Climate Commission in 2025 which helps bring people together and aims to hold the Council and other partners to their climate targets. It was noted that the Council also engages in events such as green business forums. The last City Leaders Forum also focused on sustainability.