Including 18 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce, and emission reductions.
… on carbon reduction and in 2014 approved a comprehensive route map to a low carbon economy in Winchester district. A Low Carbon Board was established with representatives from the council, the University of Winchester, Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) and Winchester Walking Group. Over the past ten years the council’s own carbon emissions have reduced by 23.6% with a decrease…
… PLAN This Action Plan will focus on how the council aims to achieve carbon neutrality and; • Actions it will take to reduce/eliminate or offset its own carbon emissions. • Actions it can take to support and help others; individuals, businesses, agencies and organisations, to take action so that the district becomes carbon neutral. • Actions that promote climate resilience including…
… biodiversity; waste and recycling, planning and development; and commerce and economy. As such its focus is on carbon emission reduction and elimination, with mitigation /off setting used as a means to balance carbon emissions to achieve net zero gain. The baseline year of 2017 is used as this the most currently available data and gives the council’s carbon emissions as 4,187 tonnes CO2e…
… to compensate for the emissions they cannot avoid, by supporting projects that reduce emissions somewhere else. Reducing carbon emissions can include actions such as energy efficiency measures that reduce the demand for heating. Eliminating carbon emissions can be achieved through the use of renewable energy that does not produce any carbon emissions and making changes to industrial…
… neutral the council will calculate its gross emissions and apply emission reductions to produce a net CO2e tonne figure. This is known as a carbon footprint (our baseline year is 2017). 8 FACTS SOURCE OF COUNCIL CARBON EMISSIONS (SOURCE CARBON FOOTPRINT REPORT) 1,494 tonnes CO2eTRANSPORT TOTAL 4,187 tonnes CO2e 1,004 tonnes CO2eSITE GAS 1,652 tonnes CO2eSITE ELECTRIC TRANSPORT 46…