Including 8 closely related terms such as carbon projects, carbon reduction, and carbon emission.
… means that we will have used up our global carbon budget within a decade. It is this realisation – and the ever accumulating science on the scale of the impacts of climate change – that led to calls for organisations and areas to declare a climate emergency and to develop and implement plans to rapidly reduce carbon emissions. 13 14 15 A NET-ZERO CARBON ROADMAP FOR BELFAST OUR…
… Figure 3 below). Figure 3: Belfast’s Present and Projected Energy Expenditure by Sector 2322 A NET-ZERO CARBON ROADMAP FOR BELFAST SETTING SCIENCE-BASED CARBON REDUCTION TARGETS FOR BELFAST The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has argued that from 2020, keeping within a global carbon budget of 344 gigatonnes (i.e. 344 billion tonnes) of CO2 emissions would give us a 66…
… with other Commissions in the Place-Based Climate Action Network, Belfast Climate Commission can also support the development of low carbon projects and programmes and the preparation of a low carbon investment prospectus to encourage new forms of climate finance to accelerate the city’s low carbon transition. 46 47 A NET-ZERO CARBON ROADMAP FOR BELFAST APPENDIX 1. LEAGUE TABLE OF THE MOST…
… TO LOCAL 14m tonnes Belfast’s share of the global carbon budget (to keep to 1.5ºC of warming) Belfast is emitting 1.5m tonnes of carbon a year. At this rate, we will have used up our budget by 2030 BASELINES AND TARGETS 42% The decline in Belfast’s carbon emissions since 2000 This needs to be increased to 66% by 2025 80% by 2030 100% by 2050 Belfast has committed to work towards…
… • Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions from Belfast have fallen by 42% since the turn of the Millennium. With on-going decarbonisation of grid electricity, and taking into account population and economic growth within the city region, we project that Belfast’s 2000 level of annual emissions output will have fallen by a total of 51% in 2050. • If it is to stay within its carbon budget, Belfast…