Including 18 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce, and emissions reduction.
…, the first truly global effort to reduce carbon emissions, which aims to rap- idly cut greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, to keep global warming below 2oC. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report which suggested that we could limit global warming to 1.5°C, and that the previous target of 2°C would have catastrophic impacts to health…
…. F ig u re 1 7 CARBON EMISSIONS & ACHIEVING NET ZERO Dorset Council Emissions As a new unitary Council (only in existence since April 2019), no his- toric data is available to directly compare progress. However, each of the former local authorities now forming Dorset Council had carbon management programmes, which had recorded savings in the region of 10-15% since 2009…
… in under eight years if nothing changes. In 2008, the UK was the first country in the world to adopt legally bind- ing emissions reduction targets of 80% by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels) and led to a series of five carbon budgets to 2032. The target was upgraded to be net zero emissions by 2050, with a 100% reduction instead of 80%. In September 2020, the Committee on Climate Change…
… THE ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY 13 NATURAL ASSETS 49 ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE 16 TRANSPORT 53 CARBON EMISSIONS & ACHIEIVNG NET ZERO 18 MAKING IT HAPPEN 57 CARBON BUDGETS: PATHWAYS & TRAJECTORIES 21 YOUR IDEAS 61 AREAS FOR ACTION 23 NEXT STEPS 65 RENEWABLE ENERGY 25 REFERENCES 67 FOREWORD Back in May 2019, one of the first actions of the newly formed Dorset Council…
… for carbon reduction and then work out how they’ll achieve them, I’ve always wanted us to do the investigation and information-gathering first before setting out our strategy. This ensures that our action plan and timetable is both realistic and achievable, as well as ambitious. This strategy brings together a considerable amount of work, made more challenging due to a lack of comparable data…