Including 5 closely related terms such as carbon budgets, carbon emission, and carbon emissions.
…;MId=9909 https://ww5.swindon.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=285&MId=10130 For clarity and consistency in our terminology, we are moving away from using “carbon reduction” and “carbon emissions”, to talk more precisely about reducing all GHG emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2e). This first iteration of the Net Zero Emissions Plan has…
… 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…
…) in Glasgow. Countries are being asked to come forward with ambitious 2030 GHG emission reduction targets that align with reaching net zero by the middle of the century. UK context Carbon budgets were introduced in the UK under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Each carbon budget provides a five-year, statutory cap on total GHG emissions, which should not be exceeded, in order to meet the UK’s…
… not include a statutory duty for local authorities to develop plans and deliver cuts in line with the UK carbon budgets (statutory cap on total GHG emissions). Nor did it set local authorities their own carbon budgets. But alongside its work on the Sixth Carbon Budget, the Climate Change Committee (CCC)9 published an accompanying report in 2020 on the role of local authorities in delivering…
… 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…