Including 4 closely related terms such as carbon projects, carbon projects, and carbon future.
…, there may be pressure to move Gloucestershire towards a unitary authority. The risk is two-fold; in the medium term is the uncertainty that any such change introduces to the long-term stability of CDC as a decision maker on local policy and a counterparty to low carbon projects, and in the longer term the potential for a future unitary authority to dilute the low carbon ambition expressed by CDC…
… on carbon and energy efficiency of new developments. It has already been noted that the white paper pushes the requirement of zero carbon development off to 2050 (compared to its long-abandoned original target date of 2016), so immediately undermining the ambition of many Councils to push for much faster adoption of this benchmark. 5.3.2 Recession The UK is entering a period of recession…
… with the virus. If the kind of short term changes we have made to adapt to the virus become permanent, it will affect many aspects of how we live, shop, travel and work, and therefore will change the assumptions underpinning the investment case for low carbon projects. Many uncertainties hang over how and whether Covid-19 it can be defeated. These include the eventual uptake rate of a vaccine…
… interpretations of the rapidly evolving science on climate breakdown, and what it means for Cotswold District, provided by bodies like the Committee on Climate Change and the Met Office. We will also track and take account of the evidence of fast, deep and wide-scale change in both public attitudes and corporate decision making in favour of a net zero carbon future, to be achieved sooner than…