lincolnshire county council
Speeding up carbon reduction or an
opportunity to cut council spending?
The Informed Executive
investigates how
Lincolnshire County
Council has funded
carbon reduction
programmes with the
aid of Salix Finance
Early adoption can be a mixed blessing. The kudos that comes with
Salix fund to extend the scope of its carbon-
being one of the first to take up a new idea or to implement a new
saving initiatives.
technology is often tempered by a bumpy ride along the learning curve
For Steve Golightly - the Carbon Manage-
ment Project Assistant - and his colleagues in
when there is little experience to draw upon. Carbon management in
the Sustainability Unit at Lincolnshire County
the public sector has proved to be no exception. The Local Authorities
Council, the availability of funding from Salix
Carbon Management (LACM) Programme of the Carbon Trust has been meant that the pace of carbon reduction in the
considered at length in the pages of The Informed Executive.
County could be stepped up.
“We had been financing such projects
The Programme had been launched back in wholly from the Council’s budget up to that
2003 with just 16 UK local authorities. By the point. Being able effectively to double the
time it came to the fourth annual intake in level of investment for qualifying projects was
2006, Lincolnshire County Council was one of an opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint.
35 to sign up to a scheme that had become The Council was immediately able to make
well tuned and had a growing base of experi- inroads to the base line for carbon emissions
(Above)The EPIC Project is a ence to pass on to its participants. by investing in projects where a reduction
centre of environmental innovation Salix Finance, with its distinctive style of could be made most readily.”
in Lincolnshire that aims to funding had, by round 5 of the LACM pro-
explore low carbon technologies gramme, been able to demonstrate the tonnes
and responses to global warming. of carbon that its clients were saving.
Meeting Salix requirements
It is a comprehensive multipurpose A matter of months after completing the ini- The conditions placed by Salix Finance on
complex that is being being built tial phase of its LACM involvement, Lincoln- any loan fund to which it contributes are that
to high environmental standards. shire County Council had established its own the break-even on a project has to be within
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