Nottingham-based e-mobility business, Ottr, have been invited by the Nottingham Green Partnership to lead a project to review the city’s approach to greening businesses’ supply chains and procurement processes to help achieve Nottingham’s ambition of being carbon neutral by 2028 (CN28).
The Nottingham Green Partnership, a group of over 20 public and private sector organisations, has been working to help the city to be more sustainable and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions since 1992.
CN28 is Nottingham’s action plan to help achieve a resilient and sustainable carbon neutral city by 2028. The plan spans: carbon reduction measures; carbon removal; resilience and adaption; and ecology and biodiversity.
To date, the city has reduced its overall CO2 emissions per capita by 57.7% which is the highest reduction of any core UK city. Furthermore, if the plans are successful, Nottingham will be Europe’s first carbon neutral city.
Ottr’s involvement in the project is born from the values at the heart of the company: to contribute to a more sustainable and environmentally conscious future by creating innovative technology to harness renewable energy through their fleet of electric vehicles.
The brand’s point of difference is that they are actively encouraging and supporting local communities and business to swap their daily car commute for an e-bike or e-moped and their work with Nottingham City Council is yet another example of this.
Ottr became part of the City’s Green Partnership earlier this year and as CEO of Ottr, David Bothwell explains: “We are working with the City Council and other organisations across the city to progress their impressive plans and work out how we, and other businesses striking the same chord, are best placed to help.
“The plan that we at Ottr have in place to reduce our own carbon footprint within supply chain and procurement is something we’re very proud of and we are consequently well placed and well versed to advise other local business on how to achieve similar goals.”
Chris Common, Carbon Neutral Policy Manager at the City Council, added: “We have big ambitions to achieve CN28 and become Europe’s first carbon neutral city. But the City Council can’t do it alone and businesses like Ottr give us the support and collaboration we need to bring other local businesses on this journey with us.”
