Including the closely related terms carbon reduction, carbon future, and carbon budget.
… and opportunities, including new jobs in low carbon industries, safer and more comfortable homes and workplaces with lower energy bills, better air quality and more greenspace and access to nature, improving our health and well-being. The Commission’s mission is to provide independent advice to local government, the broader public sector and business on setting and meeting carbon reduction targets…
… helped create this report. This is the report of the Commission and I hope that the work of the Commission will continue to inform, inspire and assist Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s councillors, residents and businesses to ensure this area can deliver a net zero carbon future and become an even better, greener place to live and work for everyone. Dame Julia King 4 Cambridgeshire &…
… to climate change equally, either globally or locally, and not everyone has the same capacity to adapt and mitigate the e�ects at the individual, community and organisational level. 1 Emissions from peatlands are uncertain and will need further measures to be tackled, but add around 33% to CPCA area emissions. 2 CCC (2020), The Sixth Carbon Budget – The UK’s path to Net Zero. Cambridgeshire &…
… inventory, were included in the estimates for 2019. The historical drainage of lowland soils in the Fens, for agricultural use, is associated with emissions as the drying out of peatland has resulted in the release of previously stored carbon to the atmosphere. A substantial area of UK lowland peatland is within the CPCA area. Inclusion in the UK inventory has added around 1.8 MtCO2e to recorded…