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Gwynedd County Council

…) • Nitrous Oxide (N2O) ...measured together as one unit, and called CO2e Method of measuring carbon emissions – • Per kg – kgCO2e • Per tonne – tCO2e ‘Releasing greenhouse gases’ or ‘greenhouse gas emissions’ are usually called ‘carbon emissions’, and by using terminology such as ‘carbon reduction’ what is meant is the reduction in the levels of all greenhouse gases, and not only…

… Council declared a climate emergency, and vowed to take definitive steps to reduce carbon emissions and to work towards a carbon-free future. We now believe that we also need to give equal weight to the nature emergency since both co- exist in parallel. Changes to temperature and rainfall as a result of climate change can lead to loss of habitat for nature and wildlife, and the loss…

… was 31,155 tCO2e (further information on the meaning of tCO2e in ‘What is net zero carbon and why is it important?’). The council committed to reducing carbon emissions by 40% by 2021 compared with its baseline year, but indeed exceeded this target by going further and faster. By 2020 the council’s carbon emissions were 13,003 tCO2e, a reduction of 58%. The Welsh Government methodology that we…

… or stopping the process of global warming, and the need to reduce carbon emissions in the future. But what about the effects that global warming is already having on us here in Gwynedd? One of those effects is the increasing danger of coastal flooding as a result of rising sea levels, and the effects of flooding inland as a result of extreme weather or an increase in river levels. Both could…

…, but this data gives us a base to measure progress. Since 2020/21 was an unusual working year because of the circumstances created by the Covid-19 pandemic, we have chosen 2019/20 as our baseline year and we will compare progress against that year’s data. Data on carbon emissions is collected to measure activities in 3 areas, or ‘scopes’: Scope 1 – Direct Emissions e.g. producing electricity…