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High Peak Borough Council

… - CURRENT EMISSIONS PROFILE HIGH PEAK – CURRENT EMISSIONS PROFILE The Governments Department for Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes an annual data set of data for Local Authority territorial CO2e emissions estimates. The latest data set is for 2018. 2018 Emissions Industry and Commercial Domestic Transport Land Use Net Emissions Total Kt CO2e 2,543.20 151.7 154.8 -16.7 2,833.00…

… Leisure centres energy use Council vehicles Sta� travel Councillor's travel Technically for the purpose of reporting these figures cover the two types of Greenhouse gas emissions – referred to as scope 1 and 2. Scope 1 covers direct emissions from owned or controlled sources – such as the fuel used by council vehicles. Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from things like the generation…

… of electricity the Council purchases. There is a third type of emission, Scope 3, which includes all other indirect emissions that occur in a Council’s ‘value chain’ including both upstream and downstream emissions. Currently the Council does not have data on its Scope 3 related greenhouse gas emissions. HIGH PEAK BOROUGH COUNCIL CO2e EMISSIONS 2019/20 (METRIC TONNES CO2e) 14 INITIAL ACTIVITY…

…, and make “finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” Under the Paris Agreement, each country must determine, plan, and regularly report on the contribution that it undertakes to mitigate global warming. No mechanism forces a country to set a specific emissions target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond…

… Since 2005 CO2e emissions in the Borough have fallen. The decarbonisation of electricity supplies has played a significant part in this. Domestic Total Transport Total Land Use Net Emissions Industry and Commercial Total Grand Total Grand Total -500.0 - 500.0 1,000.0 1,500.0 2,000.0 2,500.0 3,000.0 3,500.0 4,000.0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Industry…