Including 15 closely related terms such as carbon budget, carbon budgets, and global carbon budget.
… to have outweighed the additional emissions from an increase in Council staff and buildings during this period. We will have a clearer picture once more data has been gathered and sufficiently analysed. Dorset Council’s TOTAL Carbon footprint for 2019-2020 is estimated at 40,000 to 45,000 tCO2e. CARBON BUDGETS PATHWAYS & TRAJECTORIES Global & National Carbon Budget…
… will be advising on the 6th Carbon Budget (2033- 37), which will be the first Carbon Budget set in line with this new net zero target. However, the Committee on Climate Change have warned that the UK is not on track to meet the fourth (2023-27) or fifth (2028-32) carbon budgets. Global & National Carbon Budget Based on the global carbon budget and scaling this by the population of Dorset gives…
… tCO2e) - 100% reduction Dorset Council’s Carbon Budget Dorset Council only has control over the carbon emissions produced from its operations and this will be a key focus of our initial programme. To achieve this Dorset Council will need to meet interim Carbon budg- ets of: We have no historic data for Dorset Council. However, by using the historic emissions of the Councils which…
… THE ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY 13 NATURAL ASSETS 49 ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE 16 TRANSPORT 53 CARBON EMISSIONS & ACHIEIVNG NET ZERO 18 MAKING IT HAPPEN 57 CARBON BUDGETS: PATHWAYS & TRAJECTORIES 21 YOUR IDEAS 61 AREAS FOR ACTION 23 NEXT STEPS 65 RENEWABLE ENERGY 25 REFERENCES 67 FOREWORD Back in May 2019, one of the first actions of the newly formed Dorset Council…
…, the first truly global effort to reduce carbon emissions, which aims to rap- idly cut greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, to keep global warming below 2oC. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report which suggested that we could limit global warming to 1.5°C, and that the previous target of 2°C would have catastrophic impacts to health…