Including 11 closely related terms such as management, manage, and reduce carbon.
…. F ig u re 1 7 CARBON EMISSIONS & ACHIEVING NET ZERO Dorset Council Emissions As a new unitary Council (only in existence since April 2019), no his- toric data is available to directly compare progress. However, each of the former local authorities now forming Dorset Council had carbon management programmes, which had recorded savings in the region of 10-15% since 2009…
… THE ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY 13 NATURAL ASSETS 49 ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE 16 TRANSPORT 53 CARBON EMISSIONS & ACHIEIVNG NET ZERO 18 MAKING IT HAPPEN 57 CARBON BUDGETS: PATHWAYS & TRAJECTORIES 21 YOUR IDEAS 61 AREAS FOR ACTION 23 NEXT STEPS 65 RENEWABLE ENERGY 25 REFERENCES 67 FOREWORD Back in May 2019, one of the first actions of the newly formed Dorset Council…
…- rent and future climate change as an integral part of our overall ap- proach. Throughout this strategy, we highlight many of these issues and key areas of action that are required to adapt to climate change. Our approach to achieving carbon neutrality must also be integrated within wider sustainability goals. Many of the actions required to tackle carbon emissions will have wider co-benefits…
…, the first truly global effort to reduce carbon emissions, which aims to rap- idly cut greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, to keep global warming below 2oC. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report which suggested that we could limit global warming to 1.5°C, and that the previous target of 2°C would have catastrophic impacts to health…
… change? The UK was the first country to set legally binding carbon-reduction targets in the 2008 Climate Change Act, to cut greenhouse gas emis- sions by at least 80% by 2050 (from 1990 levels) and agree interim five-year ‘carbon budgets’ that take the country progressively towards that 80% target. / 16 Insert image F ig u re 1 5 In May 2019, the Committee on Climate Change…