Including the closely related terms low carbon, carbon, and low carbon.
… advice on steps towards a low carbon, climate resilient future, to inform our shared vision and shape the actions of local stakeholders and decision makers. It will monitor progress towards meeting the area’s carbon reduction targets and recommend actions to keep the area on course to achieve its ambitions. The Commission will also act as a forum where organisations and communities can exchange…
… acknowledged its responsibilities, by unanimously passing a Motion (Appendix 1), which committed the Council to lead by example in accelerating the transformational change required to address the climate emergency. The Chief Executive was tasked with setting out a route map to deliver through co-production with citizens and other stakeholders, a low carbon Perth & Kinross. This report…
… is the first stage in that journey. It is deliberately an interim document and forms the basis to start the conversation with our national and local elected representatives, our partners and our communities, over the next few months (as detailed in part 2 below) - giving all partners and all citizens a chance to play a part in delivering a low carbon and climate resilient Perth & Kinross…
… Delivering a low carbon future will be expensive and will require difficult decisions on spending options. This report highlights multiple occasions where we have already accessed different funding sources to make a difference (over £49 million in funding has been secured since 2013), and we need to maximise access to further funding opportunities to achieve our ambitions. Figure 3 The UK…
… Committee on Climate Change estimated the additional annual cost to the economy of achieving net zero emissions is 1-2% of the country’s gross domestic product (currently £2 trillion) - therefore indicating that £20- 40 billion needs to be spent each year on carbon reduction, by 2050. Source: UK Committee of Climate Change http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/15…