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High Peak Borough Council

…, and make “finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” Under the Paris Agreement, each country must determine, plan, and regularly report on the contribution that it undertakes to mitigate global warming. No mechanism forces a country to set a specific emissions target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond…

… Report, found that the Nationally Determined Contributions were insufficient to ensure that global temperature rises stay below 1.5°C, and that nations must triple their efforts in order to meet even a 2°C target. It also found that global emissions had increased in 2018 after a period of stability between 2014 and 2016. Since that Report, evidence is that greenhouse gas emissions embedded…

… Change but also from human intervention, which in turn is increasing the effects of the climate and biodiversity crises. Scientists warn that we have little over a decade to implement urgent action to reduce and limit CO2e emissions before we reach a global tipping point. Action is required at international, national and local level to achieve the carbon reduction levels needed. Councils…

… Leisure centres energy use Council vehicles Sta� travel Councillor's travel Technically for the purpose of reporting these figures cover the two types of Greenhouse gas emissions – referred to as scope 1 and 2. Scope 1 covers direct emissions from owned or controlled sources – such as the fuel used by council vehicles. Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from things like the generation…

… of electricity the Council purchases. There is a third type of emission, Scope 3, which includes all other indirect emissions that occur in a Council’s ‘value chain’ including both upstream and downstream emissions. Currently the Council does not have data on its Scope 3 related greenhouse gas emissions. HIGH PEAK BOROUGH COUNCIL CO2e EMISSIONS 2019/20 (METRIC TONNES CO2e) 14 INITIAL ACTIVITY…