Including the closely related term transport.
… their own policy frameworks. 1.3 At a national level, we have seen carbon reduction passed into law, with the UK Government committing to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This builds on the 2008 Climate Change Act and puts the UK in a strong global leadership position with regard to its regulatory and policy framework. Meeting this target requires emissions from homes, transport, farming…
…, local authorities and regions – in the shape of firm net-zero targets which typically range from 2030 to 2050, and in emerging investment and delivery plans. Several local authorities have brought forward operational plans to decarbonise their operations within a short timeframe, and we are seeing new approaches to sustainable energy, waste disposal and transport (in particular) emerge…
… be system-wide – spanning the public, private and social sectors, and using all of the levers we have to generate the scale of investment and collaboration that is needed. 1.7 Local Authorities are already responding – with initiatives ranging from bottom-up citizen engagement to waste reduction, transport planning innovation, energy generation and investment in the region’s considerable…
… to the LULUCF net emissions. Figure 1 CO2 emissions for North of Tyne from 2005 to 2017 2.3 Figure 2 below shows the current source of carbon emissions – showing that in the North of Tyne area (as in other parts of the country), major emissions are split between transport, domestic and industrial/commercial settings (although it is worth noting that due to national data collection methods…
…% Industry and Commercial Gas 13% Large Industrial Installations 0% Industrial & Commercial Other Fuels 3% Agriculture 3% Domestic Electricity 8% Domestic Gas 22% Domestic 'Other Fuels' 3% Road Transport (A roads) 23% Road Transport (Minor roads) 11% Transport Other 0% Figure 3 CO2 emissions across the North of Tyne 2.4 BEIS data shows in Figure 3 (above), in 2017, emissions…