Decision details

Beyond Carbon Pump Priming Budget

Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Environment & Transport

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

The Beyond Carbon bid for £42,000 for the IT Function Carbon Model is approved.

Reasons for the decision:

The delivery of a carbon modelling tool that will allow exact carbon reductions to be calculated for new or changed IT services when making associated technology choices. The model will forecast the financial and carbon savings from options associated with each service change. This includes ‘off site’ cloud storage and the increased use of AI in service delivery, which have ‘hidden’ cash and carbon costs.

Further iterations of this Carbon Toolkit could be developed beyond this primary application for wider financial savings and carbon impact quantification.

Alternative options considered:

Bids are submitted to the Beyond Carbon Pump Priming budget following an agreed process. Therefore, no alternative options were considered.

Publication date: 15/08/2025

Date of decision: 07/08/2025

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