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Blaby District Council

… of comprehensive actions to reduce our carbon emissions, with the headline being to hit the net zero target by 2030 for the Council’s activities. In simple terms, this document:  Establishes a framework for reducing carbon emissions  Sets out what our current ‘baseline’ carbon emissions are (or ‘carbon footprint’), so we know where we are starting from and can set meaningful targets…

… determined by the upstream emissions: that is, from the production and distribution of the energy used to charge them. Recent research also suggests that the lifetime carbon emissions of EV’s are approximately half those of a conventional vehicle, with more efficient electric vehicles saving on the carbon produced in the batteries in just two or three years17. Further carbon savings can be made when…

… are carbon positive. 5 There are other greenhouse gases including methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases which also trap heat and contribute to climate change. When we talk about carbon emissions and carbon neutrality we also refer to these gases and their impact is accounted for in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), the standard unit for measuring carbon footprints. PART…

… fuel) 0.29072 kg CO2e / litre Water Consumption and Treatment Water supply 0.344 kg CO2e / m3 Water treatment 0.708 kg CO2e / m3 5. Blaby’s Carbon Budget The relationship between CO2 and global temperatures means that staying within a given temperature threshold requires that only a certain total quantity of CO2 is released to the atmosphere. This is the global carbon budget…

… to individual persons or organisations. With this in mind it follows that any target date for carbon neutrality is meaningless unless we also abide by an overall carbon budget. The carbon budget shapes the rate at which we need to decrease emissions each year. Analysis of the national picture has suggested that if nationally we were to plot a straight line pathway to zero from today, the target…