Including 9 closely related terms such as carbon emissions, emissions reduction, and emissions.
… currently have available to us. There are gaps in our understanding and more work will need to be undertaken over time. • Integrated. It covers both direct and indirect carbon emissions as well as climate resilience. This plan is not: • Perfect. We are facing a climate emergency and this plan is a next step. • Static. The field is fast changing – policy, finance, technology, the markets and public…
… impact on reducing our carbon emissions, but also have other positive impacts. This will require us to work across our organisation and with partners, to think strategically and long term. It may mean that action is sometimes slower but we will work to achieve a balance. Long term The climate emergency can be hard to respond to because the payback from our actions is not always…
…. Nature is also vital for our wellbeing. We will seek to act in ways which maximise our emissions reductions and addresses the nature emergency and uses nature based solutions. P age 23 Electric vans trials Our hugely popular electric van trial scheme uses behavioural change insights to tackle one of the key barriers in switching to electric vehicles: uncertainty about new…
… time as delivering our statutory functions, delivering services for Sheffield and commissioning, we have the potential to impact on our carbon emissions and on nature and biodiversity, either positively or negatively. Internally within the local authority we need to ensure that the funding that is available to us works as hard as it can to reduce our emissions as well as allowing us…
… services on the progress that they make. 4. Improving our data • Understand where our data is lacking and take action to improve it. • Report our Carbon Emissions as an organisation and a city annually. P age 27 2 We will be proactive in finding ways to resource the action that is needed The full scale of up front investment that is needed to fund the transformation required across…