Environment and carbon

We've set out long-term plan to guide us to becoming a carbon-neutral organisation.

The Scottish Government is committed to achieving Net Zero carbon emissions by 2045.

We've pledged a reduction of 6% per annum until 2030, an overall 75% reduction. Our five-year Carbon Management Plan outlines projects and initiative to aid this target. Our plan shares our longer-term plan show we will support local communities in managing the impacts of climate change.

Our main sources of carbon emissions are:

• heating and powering our estate
• fuelling our fleet

We continue to take steps to tackle these areas.

To make our buildings more energy efficient, we are:

• Installing smart heating controls in fire stations
• Providing more roof solar panels
• Improving building insulation
• Switching our national training centre to a biomass boiler. This means heating the building using sustainably sourced materials.

As funding becomes available, our network of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure expands.

We have received more than £2million of funding to date. The Scottish Government's Switched on Fleets initiative has provided:

• £625,000 in 2019 from the Energy Savings Trust to buy charging points for nine locations.
• £2,095million in 2020 from Transport Scotland to lease 62 low-emission electric cars over three year. Also, to expand our charging infrastructure at 49 locations.
• Scotland's first electric-powered fire appliance will soon be on the run. It is funded by Transport Scotland, supported by Scottish Enterprise. It was built by Emergency One in Ayrshire.