Including 5 closely related terms such as carbon reductions, carbon reduction, and carbon emission.
… Your environment Climate change Climate action and biodiversity work plan 2023 to 2024 Climate action and biodiversity work plan 2023 to 2024 Introduction The council declared a climate emergency in January 2020 and stated its aim to be carbon neutral by 2030, twenty years ahead of the current UK government target. To analyse the council’s carbon emission and to set…
… carbon reductions and savings. This Climate Action and Biodiversity Work Plan has been produced to sit alongside the Carbon Neutral Strategy. It provides a schedule of all the projects and plans which must be undertaken in the coming months and years to reduce the emissions generated by the council in order to achieve the 2030 target. This work plan is also aligned to the Council Vision 2022-2026…
… which has a key aim of ‘supporting the environment’, improving sustainability, biodiversity and protecting habitats. Emission Baselines The council commissioned a carbon audit to calculate its carbon emissions and to set baselines. The audit used data from the financial years 2019-20 and 2020-21. This allowed for comparison of emissions pre-pandemic and during the restrictions to assess any…
… incomplete or missing data from either year. The carbon emissions were categorised as Scope 1, 2 and 3 in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Source: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (ghgprotocol.org) categorises emissions into three groups or scopes as defined above. Category Description Example…
…. Fig 1. Graphic to showcase which emission sources have been included within the council’s carbon footprint. Arun District Council 2021-2022 emissions The council has finalised the carbon emissions for all scopes for the 2021-2022 financial year and included them within the table below. This also showcases the tonnes of CO2e percentage change seen within Scopes 1, 2, 3 and the total emissions…