Including 14 closely related terms such as carbon budget, total carbon budget, and global carbon budget.
… the findings of the IPCC and advising the UK Government to revise its long term 2050 carbon emissions. This saw a new target adopted to cut GHG emissions to net zero by 2050 with the UK Government becoming the first country to nationally declare a Climate Emergency in May 2019. As the UK prepared to host the COP26 climate summit in 2021, the UK’s sixth carbon budget set out the world’s most ambitious…
… (excluding carbon stock changes which are included in the LULUCF sector) and agricultural machinery. Public Sector 15.1 Emissions from the combustion of fuel in public sector buildings, e.g., hospitals and schools. SIC07 subsections 84-87. TOTAL 894.2 The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has argued that from 2020, keeping within a global carbon budget of 344 billion tonnes of GHG…
… emissions would give us a 66% chance of limiting average warming to 1.5 degrees and therefore avoiding dangerous levels of climate change. If we divide this global figure up on an equal basis by population, this gives East Lindsey a total carbon budget of 6 megatonnes (i.e. 6 million tonnes) from 20203. Based only on the fuel and electricity used within its boundaries, East Lindsey currently emits c…
…. The carbon budget for South Holland is currently being calculated. How is South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership leading by example? Focus 1: Reduce the carbon footprint of our own activities Both East Lindsey District Council (ELDC) and Boston Borough Council (BBC) have engaged the Carbon Trust to produce Carbon Reduction Plans for their own operations. The ELDC plan was adopted…
… Business travel and commuting, waste, water, procured goods and services This contrasts with, for example, carbon neutral targets which may not account for all emissions Scopes and which allow emissions to be offset by high quality, certified carbon credits. 6 DRAFT CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY Carbon Management Hierarchy The key priority in seeking to reduce emissions is that there should…