Including 11 closely related terms such as total carbon, carbon economy, and reduce carbon.
… centres like ours, scope 3 makes up a large portion of the total carbon footprint. Measuring it can lead to the design of innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions significantly. We have included scope 1, 2 and all scope 3 emissions to take ownership, show leadership and help make this standard practice. This can make it appear that we are greater emitters than our peers that have…
… not included Scope 3. We will continue to enhance our understanding of scope 3 data with our partners. We will also advocate for standardisation of reporting to ensure everyone addresses their total carbon footprint effectively. 1,520 ktCO2e Scope 3 36 For organisations and financial centres like ours, scope 3 makes up aktCO2e large portion of the total Scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint…
… – and measuring it can lead to the design of innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions significantly. Climate Action Strategy 2020-2027 9 Risks to health, wellbeing and productivity from high temperatures. Risk of shortages in the public water supply. Flooding of communities, businesses and infrastructure…
… environment and from healthy ecosystems. GHGs means greenhouse gases - the emissions responsible for global warming. These include methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases amongst others. ktCO2 is the unit of measurement for GHG emissions. It standardises greenhouse gases into units of kilo- tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (ktCO2e). A low-carbon economy is simply an economy…
… that causes low levels of GHG emissions compared with today’s carbon-intensive economy. ‘Carbon’ refers to carbon dioxide, the GHG which contributes the most to climate change. The low-carbon economy can be seen as a step in the process towards a zero-carbon economy. (Science Direct) Natural capital refers to the stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living…