Including 28 closely related terms such as carbon emission, carbon emissions, and gas emissions.
… from the environment. This can be achieved by a combination of emission reduction and emission removal. When the amount of GHG emissions produced by a country, organisation or place are cancelled out by the amount removed, it will be a net zero emitter. GHG emissions can be removed by the natural environment (e.g. stored in soils, trees and the ocean) or by using technologies like carbon capture…
… the amount of CO2 which would have the equivalent global warming impact3. International context Global annual greenhouse gas emissions have grown 41% since 1990 and are still climbing. While emissions dipped notably in 2016, recent data suggests that carbon dioxide emissions increased each year since then4. 1 As of March 2021, 59…
… Farm solar park, coincided with the launch of the Abundance ISA, making it the UK’s first ever ISA-eligible solar bond. Context for this first Net Zero Emissions Action Plan In January 2020, the Council passed a motion11 that: “Commits the Council to an 80 per cent reduction in the council`s corporate carbon emissions no later than 2030, striving towards 100 per cent with carbon…
… 3 ecometrica: Greenhouse Gases, CO2, CO2e, and Carbon: What Do All These Terms Mean? (August 2012) https://ecometrica.com/assets/GHGs-CO2-CO2e-and-Carbon-What-Do-These-Mean-v2.1.pdf 4 World Resources Institute Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Countries and Sectors (February 2020) https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors https…
…://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF11821.html https://ecometrica.com/assets/GHGs-CO2-CO2e-and-Carbon-What-Do-These-Mean-v2.1.pdf https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors The Paris Agreement was the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate change agreement, adopted at the Paris climate conference (COP21…