Including 13 closely related terms such as gas emissions, carbon emissions, and direct emissions.
… CIEH – Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Decarbonisation - Reducing the carbon emissions from an energy system. DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Direct Emissions - Direct emissions refers to Scope 1 and 2 emissions in the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Protocol and include the Council’s use of gas, electricity, transport fuel and water. EA – Environment…
…-time in the atmosphere. Carbon neutral – having no net release of carbon dioxide into the environment. Carbon Neutral may be used as short hand for Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions, taking into account our direct emissions in the city from energy use and transport but also our total indirect emissions which includes aviation and the consumption of goods and service produced elsewhere…
… and legislation to be adopted and included. Our aim for future generations of this borough is to leave a legacy of a green, sustainable borough in which green choices are affordable to all. The investigation of the Council’s (and the borough’s) carbon footprint has identified that the biggest contributions to out carbon emissions are the use of diesel and other fuels, gas, and the waste we produce…
… a carbon neutral borough is reducing our carbon emissions. The actions required to reduce carbon emissions across the borough has been broken down into 4 sections – • Transport • Energy and the Built Environment • Consumption • Waste and Water We also then consider, as a fifth action area, the options for offsetting for those residual, remaining carbon emissions. The sixth area…
… of emerging technology to continually Continue to investigate opportunities for low carbon funding Ongoing Annual 11 improve how we act as an organisation Ensure SRBC developments make use of low carbon technologies and set an example of good practice for other development within the Borough Annual reporting of the Council’s GHG emissions Reporting of emissions…