Including 16 closely related terms such as gas emissions, carbon emissions, and direct emissions.
… or 'scopes' by the most widely-used international accounting tool, the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. As illustrated in Figure 1 and Table 1 below, Scope 1 covers direct emissions sources (e.g. gas boilers and fuel used in company vehicles), Scope 2 and 3 emissions cover indirect emissions. https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/climate-change-and-sustainability/ Shropshire Council…
… Corporate Climate Strategy 2020 8 February 2021 3 Figure 1: Sources of corporate carbon emissions 2.2. A value chain carbon footprint measures both direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of an organisation. Emissions are categorised across an organisation’s value chain, including upstream and downstream activities. These include emissions from both suppliers and consumers…
… Scope 3 (indirect) emissions for 2019 to 2020 (tCO2e) 2.3 The best available data suggests that Shropshire Council’s carbon footprint (Scope 1 & 2) has fallen from around 12,000 tonnes CO2e in 2017 to around 5,000 tonnes CO2e in 2019. The Council’s indirect emissions (Scope 3) are assessed as being around 50,000 tonnes CO2e in 2019 (see Figs. 2-4 above and Table 1 below). Whilst…
… will also generate many economic, health & wellbeing, and environmental Shropshire Council Corporate Climate Strategy 2020 8 February 2021 8 benefits. Taking early action on what we can directly control is likely to prove a more effective approach than expending significant effort in planning and target setting. 3.2. Our current emissions reduction trajectory, for direct emissions…
… (scope 1 & 2), demonstrates that net zero GHG emissions by 2030 is theoretically possible for both direct and indirect emissions. In these circumstances, Shropshire Council, has adopted the objective of achieving net zero for direct and indirect GHG emissions by 2030. This is not a legally binding target and may be subject to change based on future evidence, but it is a challenging goal…