Including 19 closely related terms such as reduce, reduce, and gas emissions.
… CIEH – Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Decarbonisation - Reducing the carbon emissions from an energy system. DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Direct Emissions - Direct emissions refers to Scope 1 and 2 emissions in the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Protocol and include the Council’s use of gas, electricity, transport fuel and water. EA – Environment…
… a carbon neutral borough is reducing our carbon emissions. The actions required to reduce carbon emissions across the borough has been broken down into 4 sections – • Transport • Energy and the Built Environment • Consumption • Waste and Water We also then consider, as a fifth action area, the options for offsetting for those residual, remaining carbon emissions. The sixth area…
…-time in the atmosphere. Carbon neutral – having no net release of carbon dioxide into the environment. Carbon Neutral may be used as short hand for Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions, taking into account our direct emissions in the city from energy use and transport but also our total indirect emissions which includes aviation and the consumption of goods and service produced elsewhere…
… panels to the Civic Centre, along with installation of LED lighting and a new building management system to improve energy efficiency Incorporated carbon reduction measures into our own new developments, such as the McKenzie Arms development Undertaken energy audits at six of the biggest energy using buildings in our estate – the Civic Centre, Moss Side depot, Leyland leisure Centre…
…, Penwortham Leisure Centre, Bamber Bridge Leisure centre and the Tennis Centre. The findings of these audits will inform future investment to improve energy efficiency and move to decarbonise energy production on site. In addition to these carbon reduction measures, the Council (with the help of our partners and residents) have planted over 62,000 trees across the Borough 4 The Plan…