Including 14 closely related terms such as carbon emissions, direct emissions, and emissions levels.
… and 3 emissions; Scope 1 - Direct emissions Activities owned or controlled by your organisation that release emissions straight into the atmosphere. They are direct emissions. Examples of scope 1 emissions include emissions from combustion in owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, vehicles; emissions from chemical production in owned or controlled process equipment. Scope 2 - Energy indirect…
… the effectiveness of our planning policies. Whilst this is heavily directed towards housing and employment figures, the Plymouth and South West Joint Local Plan sets a policy objective to half the 2005 carbon emissions levels by 1 Mitchell, T (2017) Greenhouse Gas Report, University of Exeter Centre for Energy and Environment Residential Buildings, 13…
… (t CO2e) https://devoncc.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/PublicDocs/Environment/Ea5ikvSgI0xLmsZf-g4qR2gB_Cugs-H4K2fqy7-ODP6CfA?rtime=ZUGc7haV2Eg Page 4 of 29 2034 (this is the life of the development plan). The Council reports carbon emissions levels for West Devon obtained from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, their emissions statistics do…
… not at this time provide non-CO2 emissions data at the regional level. However, this data can be tracked from 2005, meaning monitoring trends over time is possible. New data was published in June 2020 to contain 2018 estimates; graph 1 below illustrates this data and the trajectory of CO2 emissions since 2004. (Graph 1: sector emissions for West Devon between 2005 and 2017, Department for Business…
… and Transportation as a whole. The most polluting sectors continue to be Industry and Commercial electricity and Transportation. Since 2010 (The IPCC baseline2) West Devon has reduced its CO2 emissions by 23.15%. The CO2 emissions data produced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that whilst carbon emissions continue to decline, there remains a challenge with tackling emissions…