Including 29 closely related terms such as carbon emission, carbon emissions, and gas emissions.
…, the following recommendations should be adopted: 1. Stay within a maximum cumulative carbon dioxide emissions budget of 3.8 million tonnes (MtCO2) for the period of 2020 to 2100. At 2017 CO2 emission levels based on BEIS LA statistics 2017 CO2 emissions (excluding aviation, shipping, process CO2 emissions from cement production and those from land use, land use change and forestry), Blaby would use…
…. This plan identifies where our current emissions come from and identifies many potential carbon reduction measures to increase our chance of staying within our carbon budget and meeting these targets. We are committed to working with the whole district to reduce emissions and there is an appreciation that far more resource and investment will be required to implement many of the actions and reach our…
… of comprehensive actions to reduce our carbon emissions, with the headline being to hit the net zero target by 2030 for the Council’s activities. In simple terms, this document: Establishes a framework for reducing carbon emissions Sets out what our current ‘baseline’ carbon emissions are (or ‘carbon footprint’), so we know where we are starting from and can set meaningful targets…
…, which is the carbon locked into the goods, food and services we consume from around this country and the world. These are very hard to measure locally, but we can make an estimate for Blaby District from BEIS data. It shows that these often hidden emissions make up around a third of our emissions footprint overall, followed by transport and residential building emissions. Carbon dioxide…
… and other greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of sources. Some are naturally occurring processes and others from activities in our homes, transport and businesses. Carbon emissions, especially those that we can measure, generally come from the use of energy for heating, vehicles, motors, machinery and appliances. Some of these, like traditional cars or gas boilers, have direct emissions…