The City of London Corporation has been awarded £9.445m from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme administered by Salix Finance on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting will be updated and building controls and energy metering improved at Guildhall, the Barbican arts centre, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the London Metropolitan Archives.
The measures will deliver savings of around 1.5 kilotonnes of CO2, and £875,000 a year, and will support the City Corporation’s Climate Action Strategy, which commits it to achieve net zero carbon status for its buildings by 2027 and for the Square Mile as a whole by 2040.
City of London Corporation Policy Chair Catherine McGuinness commented: “Climate change is an issue which demands urgent action and this funding will move us a step closer to becoming net zero for carbon emissions by 2027.
“Our Climate Action Strategy will make the Square Mile a global leader in the fight against climate change and protect the environment.
“We all need to work together across the City to build a greener Square Mile.”