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Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council

… to determine an appropriate scale and type of interven- tion. INTRODUCTION: Page 16 INTRODUCTION: Page 17 59%23% 18% Scope 1 - Direct emissions Scope 2 - Energy indirect emissions Scope 3 - Other indirect emissions EMISSIONS REPORTING AND MONITORING City-wide Emissions Inventory The first part of our evidence-based approach involves preparing and emissions inventory. From 2020 onwards…

… and included by challenging social inequality. Newcastle's Emissions Inventory provides details of our city-wide emissions inventory. Part Three sets out our intended approach and measures to reduce and remove carbon emissions, and Part Four details the estimated delivery timeline. Carbon emissions Carbon reduction and removal Example of carbon emissions: Emissions resulting from gas…

…, Newcastle’s city emissions inventory will be reported through CDP. Our first CDP emissions disclosure has been submitted in August 2020 and is cur- rently under review. Emissions inventory An emissions inventory is a database that lists the sources and volumes of greenhouse gas emissions discharged to the atmosphere over a calendar year. A city-wide emissions inventory is prepared by collecting…

… EMISSIONS INVENTORY 59%23% 18% Scope 1 - Direct emissions Scope 2 - Energy indirect emissions Scope 3 - Other indirect emissions Emissions inventory by scope of emissions* Emissions inventory by sector (Scope 1 and 2 emissions only)* The ‘Other’ category includes emissions from industrial process, livestock, land use and generation of grid supplied energy. 64% 29% 6% 1% Energy Transport…

… gas emissions by 2050. Keeping below 1.5ºC requires massive and rapid change with deep emissions reductions in all sectors. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed signatories to hold global warming to below 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in 2018…