Including 18 closely related terms such as carbon budget, carbon cost, and low carbon.
… zero emissions and transitioning to a low carbon economy represents the greatest challenge of our times. This reflects the complexity and breadth of activity needed to tackle carbon emissions and as such, while this report lays out the City of Edinburgh Council’s approach and key actions that will be taken forward, it does not and cannot have all the answers today. As such the Council…
…, rather than Council’s operational emissions and so are not detailed further in this plan. As a result, this emission reduction plan only estimates carbon savings for projects that will impact on the Council’s carbon footprint scope (Appendix 1) and where we have sufficient data to carbon cost the project. Three types of projects have been evaluated: • “Committed projects” – which…
…. 1.2 Note the final draft with supporting implementation and investment plan will be published alongside the City Net Zero Strategy in October. 1.3 Agree the proposed Council carbon budget and that this be used to monitor future progress. 1.4 Note that city approaches to offsetting will be consulted upon as part of the 2030 Net Zero Strategy consultation. 1.5 Note that the Council’s…
… an understanding of the scale of the effort required to bridge the gap to net zero emissions. Buildings 63% Other energy consumption 16% Waste 8% Fleet 9% Business travel 3% Water 1% 5 4.7 It should be borne in mind that in some cases, an initial estimate has been provided to quantify potential carbon savings, in anticipation of further data becoming available over the coming period…
… required to deliver a net zero organisation, would also have wider city benefits for green supply chains, green jobs and a green recovery. Achieving net zero emissions and transitioning to a low carbon economy is a journey and as such the approach laid out in this report will be periodically reviewed and refined to reflect the organisation’s deepening knowledge and learning from the phased…