Including the closely related terms carbon offsetting, and offsetting.
… ........................................................................................................................................ 23 9. Governance, Funding and Engagement ............................................................................................ 23 10. Carbon Offsetting ............................................................................................................................ 25 11. Resilience and Adaptation…
… of comprehensive actions to reduce our carbon emissions, with the headline being to hit the net zero target by 2030 for the Council’s activities. In simple terms, this document: Establishes a framework for reducing carbon emissions Sets out what our current ‘baseline’ carbon emissions are (or ‘carbon footprint’), so we know where we are starting from and can set meaningful targets…
…. This is the ‘Greenhouse effect’. Simply put, human activities are carbon positive. The burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transport has increased the amount of Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases therefore trapping more heat and increasing global temperatures. Carbon neutrality, or having a net zero carbon footprint means having no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We…
… can achieve net zero emissions by balancing carbon emissions with carbon removal (often through carbon offsetting) or simply eliminating carbon emissions altogether from those activities that release it such as transportation, energy production, agriculture, and industrial processes. Renewable energy sources such as wind, water and solar are said to be carbon neutral whereas fossil fuels…
… are carbon positive. 5 There are other greenhouse gases including methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases which also trap heat and contribute to climate change. When we talk about carbon emissions and carbon neutrality we also refer to these gases and their impact is accounted for in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), the standard unit for measuring carbon footprints. PART…