Including 9 closely related terms such as gas emissions, total emissions, and gas emission.
… the members of the Cambridgeshire Fens Panel and of civil society groups, who contributed so much to development of our thinking in relation to requirements for a just transition across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. 8 Executive Summary Greenhouse gas emissions in the Combined Authority region are high. In the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) area, emissions are almost…
… tra�c, for example on the A14, A1(M) and M11, but this is not enough to explain the relatively high level of trans- port emissions overall: 11 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate Executive Summary emissions from buildings are not particularly high relative to the UK, but remain a high share of total emissions. Energy use in our homes accounts for almost…
… important. - - - Industrial and commercial sector emissions make up a lower share of emissions (27%) than across the UK (33%). Commercial sector emissions make up a similar proportion, but emissions from large industrial installations (generally energy- and emissions- intensive) are relatively small in the CPCA area. Emissions from peatlands, previously largely excluded from the UK emissions…
… of climate change, around 200 lives lost in �ooding in Germany, people drowned in their basements in New York, �ooding in London at the beginning and end of the summer and wild�res, �oods and droughts across many parts of the world. The climate is changing and already impacting how we live our lives. Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to zero globally by around mid-century will be critical…
…. We need action both to reduce emissions in line with UK targets and to prepare for the impacts of climate change, which will be signi�cant even if we are on track globally for the Paris agreement ambition of keeping close to 1.5oC and well below 2oC of warming by the end of the century. If we cannot deliver this ambition, the impacts of climate change become much more severe. The scale…