{"id":25368,"date":"2020-02-14T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25368"},"modified":"2020-02-14T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:44:34","slug":"47-of-councils-have-no-plans-for-reducing-emissions-from-built-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25368","title":{"rendered":"47% of councils have no plans for reducing emissions from built assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25369\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/24housing_140220-234x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/>Local authorities in England are not prepared to deal with climate change, it seems, following a freedom of information request from engineering services trade body ECA.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><u>24 housing<\/u><\/em><u> writes:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>93 out of 214 local authorities (43%) say that they don\u2019t measure all energy use in relation to their built assets, which include housing, facilities, offices and other council-owned buildings.<\/p>\n<p>That is according to a freedom of information request from engineering services trade body ECA.<\/p>\n<p>47% of councils say they do not have a plan in place for reducing the carbon emissions resulting from their built assets.<\/p>\n<p>ECA Energy Advisor Luke Osborne commented: &#8220;It\u2019s highly concerning that almost half of local authorities do not know how much carbon they are responsible for or have a plan in place to reduce this amount moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless there is an imminent step change in their approach, it is inconceivable that councils are going to become carbon neutral in less than 30 years. There is a lot of rhetoric out there&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More positively, 166 councils (78%) say they are planning towards net zero operation by 2050\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukconstructionweek.inloop.com\/en\/article\/55834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at UK Construction Week&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities in England are not prepared to deal with climate change, it seems, following a freedom of information request from engineering services trade body ECA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25370,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions\/25370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}