Including 8 closely related terms such as reduce carbon, carbon emission, and carbon footprint.
… Carbon Footprint 15 East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Carbon Footprint 17 Defining the Scope 17 Excluded Emissions 19 Data Collection 19 Calculating the Baseline 20 Overall Summary 20 Intensity Ratios 23 3. Carbon Emission Overall Target and Interim Targets 24 4. Biodiversity and the Natural Environment 30 5. Ideas Forum 35 6. Actions and Projects 36 Review of our Top 20…
… to hopefully agree the next steps in tackling climate change and boosting our natural environment. And I congratulate the UK government for committing in April to set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law, in order to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. I am also thrilled to read of the Queen’s Green Canopy, a national programme of tree planting…
… we have set ourselves. This will include: • Identifying, and keeping up to date (annually), the carbon footprint for the Council’s operations and for the district as a whole; • Monitoring and reviewing our carbon targets and tracking carbon emissions reductions for the Council’s operational footprint and the broader impact of its activities and policies; • Preparing and regularly…
… our carbon footprints to inform and deliver climate change mitigation through efforts to reduce or prevent carbon emissions; • Adaptation to cope with the existing and future impacts of climate change; • Enhancing and conserving natural capital such as wildlife, plants, air, water and soils. (Source: Cambridgeshire County Council Climate Change and Environment Strategy) What…
… is mitigation? Mitigation of carbon emissions addresses the causes of climate change. It describes those actions which reduce, prevent or capture greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside the views of our communities, the current carbon footprints of both this Council as an organisation, and that of the entire geographical area of East Cambridgeshire as a whole, informs our action planning. What…