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City of London

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… centres like ours, scope 3 makes up a large portion of the total carbon footprint. Measuring it can lead to the design of innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions significantly. We have included scope 1, 2 and all scope 3 emissions to take ownership, show leadership and help make this standard practice. This can make it appear that we are greater emitters than our peers that have…

… – and measuring it can lead to the design of innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions significantly. Climate Action Strategy 2020-2027 9 Risks to health, wellbeing and productivity from high temperatures. Risk of shortages in the public water supply. Flooding of communities, businesses and infrastructure…

… environment and from healthy ecosystems. GHGs means greenhouse gases - the emissions responsible for global warming. These include methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases amongst others. ktCO2 is the unit of measurement for GHG emissions. It standardises greenhouse gases into units of kilo- tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (ktCO2e). A low-carbon economy is simply an economy…

… that causes low levels of GHG emissions compared with today’s carbon-intensive economy. ‘Carbon’ refers to carbon dioxide, the GHG which contributes the most to climate change. The low-carbon economy can be seen as a step in the process towards a zero-carbon economy. (Science Direct) Natural capital refers to the stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living…

… Actions to support the achievement of net zero 14 What we can do 4 Actions to build climate resilience 15 Why us? Why now? 5 Actions to champion sustainable growth 15 Our approach 6 Glossary 16 Our evidence base 6 The breadth of emission sources we include 7 Turning risks into opportunities 8 How we complement others’ efforts 9 Factoring climate action into everything we do 9 Our…

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