Including 5 closely related terms such as resource consumption, energy efficiency, and energy.
… BIP Business Improvement Plan BREEAM Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method CAMP Corporate Asset Management Plan CEEF Central Energy Efficiency Fund CLD Community Learning and Development CMP Carbon Management Plan CPD Continuing Professional Development CPP Community Planning Partnership EDS Economic Development Strategy EDVA East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action…
… that does not take account of environmental limits will lead to collapse. Recent research indicates that such predictions are accurate; the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Decoupling Report2, for example, notes that worldwide natural resource consumption is steeply on the rise and is still a reliable companion of economic prosperity and stresses that, while economic growth is important…
…, it must be separated from unsustainable resource consumption, noting that inefficient resource management mines the very assets that underpin livelihoods and economic opportunities. The report argues that technological and systematic innovation offer historic opportunities for this to occur. Climate change, a particularly urgent issue within the wider sustainability agenda, illustrates the social…
… for the Council to apply technology and foresight to become a smarter, forward-thinking organisation where efficiencies are maximised (e.g. by installing energy-efficient lighting and by adopting video technology to reduce the need to travel to meetings) and future costs are avoided with early, preventative spend; as the following sections will show, the sustainability agenda can help deliver…
… the legacy of industrial, commercial and agricultural contamination in our area by encouraging, and where necessary enforcing, remediation of affected land. 175 The energy hierarchy is a classification of energy options, prioritised to assist progress towards a more sustainable energy system. The highest priorities are given to prevention of unnecessary energy usage through eliminating waste…