Report identifies Windsor climate metrics ‘trending in the opposite direction’ [Video]

A report going before Windsor city councillors shows levels of corporate natural gas consumption, sewage treatment plant emissions and overall corporate emissions are “trending in the opposite direction” of the city’s climate goals.

Windsor’s first R.O.S.E. report, which stands for “Report On the State of our Environment,” was completed in 2008 and is targeted for publication every five years, as part of the city’s environmental master plan.

The 2023 R.O.S.E. report is being presented to Windsor city council during its April 22 meeting.

“Many of the environmental indicators are moving towards their desired goal. Of the indicators that received a negative result, many were not moving away from their goal but were unchanged,” a portion of the report reads.

“However, three indicators are trending in the opposite direction of our goals – corporate natural gas consumption and sewage treatment plant natural gas consumption, and corporate emissions.”

According to the 2023 …