| Target
Area
| Target
| Pan-governmental performance against target baseline year
| Context
|
| Climate Change and Energy
| Reverse the current upward trend in carbon emissions by April 2007.
| Good progress
10 of 21 departments
have reported a reduction in carbon emissions compared
to 1999/00
| This target is measured against the 1999/00 baseline year. Therefore, any reduction in carbon emissions from offices from the baseline would indicate good progress for this target.
|
| Reduce carbon emissions (from offices) by 12.5%
by 2010/11, relative to 1999/00 levels.
| Some progress
4.0% reduction
| Overall carbon emissions for the civil estate have increased by 22% when the MOD efficiencies are removed. Inversely, DCA reported poor performance, due to data and reporting problems, which has negatively skewed pan-government performance.
|
| Reduce carbon emissions (from road vehicles used for government administrative
operations) by 15% by 2010/11 relative to 2005/06 levels.
| No progress or poor progress
1.5% increase
| DCA has reported significantly worsened performance against this target due to lack of data for the baseline year. If DCA was removed, pan-government carbon emissions would have decreased by 0.9%. Conversely, if we removed MOD, pan-government carbon emissions from road vehicles increased by 5,962 tonnes of CO2 or an increase of 6.4%. This is because MOD, who account for more than a third of pan-government road transport emissions, reported a reduction of 3,839 tonnes CO2.
|
| Departments to increase their energy efficiency per m2 by 15% by 2010, relative to 1999/00 levels.
| Excellent progress warranting recognition
21.7% improvement
| It should be noted that overall energy efficiency for the civil estate is worsening when the MOD efficiencies are removed: 3.3% worse when MOD excluded.
|
| Carbon neutral.
| Not assessed this year
| Departments have not been provided with guidance on how to reach 'neutral', and the debate on offsetting continues. If offsetting is seen as a key mechanism to achieve neutrality, and this can be applied in 2010 to hit this target, government should be focusing on carbon efficiency and not neutrality at the present time.
|
| Sustainable
Consumption and Production
| Departments to reduce their waste arisings by 5% by 2010, relative to
2004/05 levels.
| Excellent progress warranting recognition
5.3% reduction
| The MOD, which produces 50% of government waste, does not have 2004/05 baseline data, and therefore its 2006/07 data has been discounted for this early pan-government performance indication.
|
| Departments to increase recycling to 40% of their waste arisings by 2010.
| Good progress
38.5% recycled
| Recycling includes reuse.
|
| Natural Resource Protection
| Departments to meet or exceed the aim of having 95% of SSSIs in sole ownership in target condition by 2010.
| Good progress
82% SSSIs in
target condition
| Target condition includes SSSIs in 'favourable' and 'unfavourable recovering' condition.
|
| Reduce water
consumption by 25% on the office and non-office estate by 2020, relative to 2004/05 levels.
| Some progress
0.1% reduction
in water use
| |
| Reduce water
consumption to an average of 3m3 per person/yr for all new office builds or major refurbishment projects.
| Good progress
2.9 m3/FTE
| Only DfT reported this target as being applicable for 2006/07, and it achieved the target.
|
| Renewable
Energy and CHP
| Departments to source at least 10% of electricity from renewables (by 31 March 2008).
| Good progress
28.3% of electricity
sourced from
renewable sources
| |
| Departments to source at least 15% of electricity from Combined Heat and
Power (by 2010).
| Some progress
5.7% of electricity
sourced from
Combined Heat
and Power
| |
