Dear Councillor Murphy

re: statement on the 2013/14 Annual Carbon Reduction Plan

At last Tuesday’s Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee, it was conceded that the Friends of the Earth analysis was correct and that

“there was a 1.8% increase in like-for-like emissions between 2011/2 and 2012/13, and that there has only been a 5.2% reduction in like-for-like emissions against the 2009/10 baseline.”
My primary question is simple: is the 2013/14 Annual Carbon Reduction Plan going to be redrafted to include more ambitious targets, so that the Council meets its “20% by 2014” reduction target?

If so, will an announcement be made to this effect at Executive on Wednesday 24th July?
When would the re-drafted Annual Carbon Reduction Plan be re-submitted to the Scrutiny Committee?

If the plan is not going to be re-drafted, what new target year will be set for the 20% reduction, given that 5.2 plus 7 equals 12.2, not 20?

My secondary question is this: when did 2009/10 become the agreed baseline year for the Council’s emissions? In the Manchester Climate Change Action Plan, agreed by the Executive on November 17th 2009, goal one was a 41% reduction on carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 from a 2005 baseline.

Yours sincerely
Marc Hudson