Including 5 closely related terms such as energy use, energy projects, and energy project.
… for local or community ownership of future revenue generating energy projects. ENVIRONMENTAL • Mitigating Shetland’s contribution to climate change will make the isles a cleaner place to live and work. Taking petrol and diesel vehicles off the road and decarbonising the ferry routes will reduce air pollution, decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. • Shetland has a unique…
… scale. The GHG emissions profile for Shetland is highly unusual. In contrast to most Local Authorities, where emissions are dominated by energy use in buildings and road transport, some of Shetland’s largest sources of emissions are from land use, energy industries and agriculture. Following establishment of Shetlands emissions baseline, the following methodology was used to develop the net zero…
… to play in reducing emissions from energy use in Shetland. These could feasibly be reduced to net zero by 2045 if all fossil fuels are replaced with zero-emission alternatives, such as decarbonised grid electricity or green hydrogen. • A signif icant portion of emissions are associated with sectors that are diff icult to electrify (e.g.aviation, marine vessels, etc.) or are not associated…
… with energy use at all (e.g. land use and agriculture). At present it is not clear whether there will be technologies available by 2045 that can mitigate these sources of emissions. • It is likely to be diff icult or impossible for area-wide emissions in Shetland to get to net zero by 2045 based on currently available technologies or mitigation methods, barring a systemic overhaul of the economy, land…