Including 7 closely related terms such as energy use, energy consumption, and energy use.
…): ELIMINATE • Influence business decisions / use to prevent GHG emissions across the lifecycle • Potential exists when organisations change, expand, rationalise or move business • Transition to new business model, alternative operation or new product/service REDUCE • Real and relative (per unit) reductions in carbon and energy • Efficiency in operations, processes, fleet and energy management…
… energy usage as part of industrial and commercial processes, there will need to be significant changes to the way energy is both produced and consumed. In terms of energy demand, South Holland, East Lindsey and Boston all perform poorly on fuel poverty with all three having a higher percentage of households in fuel poverty than the national average. A key challenge for the whole area is in terms…
… • Optimise approaches (e.g. technology and digital as enablers) SUBSTITUTE • Adopt renewables/low carbon technologies (on site, transport, etc) • Reduce carbon (GHG) intensity of energy use and of energy purchased • Purchase inputs and services with lower embodied/ embedded emissions COMPENSATE • Compensate ‘unavoidable’ residual emissions (removals, offsets etc) • Investigate land management…
… and passenger transport, both for private and business purposes Housing 140.5 Emissions from energy consumption in and around the home Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) 109.2 Emissions/removals of CO2 from changes in the carbon stock in forestland, cropland, grassland, wetlands, settlements and harvested wood products, and of other greenhouse gases from drainage (excl. croplands…
… with emissions from industry also coming in the top three for emissions. kt CO2 (2019) Detail Transport 117.5 Emissions include freight and passenger transport, both for private and business purposes Housing 94.9 Emissions from energy consumption in and around the home Industrial 52.8 Emissions from businesses defined as UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC07) subsections 01-32, 35-39 & 42…