Including the closely related terms heating, heating, and heating buildings.
…, and which focus on the largest emissions categories in the District (agriculture, road transport, heating buildings) as well as the largest categories of our own emissions (waste fleet fuel, gas for heating). We will resist the temptation to focus on actions with high public relations value but small emissions value, even though actions delivering large reductions are hard and require us to work…
… .................................................................................................... 13 4.4.1 Heat and precipitation .................................................................................................. 14 4.4.2 Excess summer deaths .................................................................................................. 15 4.5 Evidence of citizens’ views…
… landscape, which will have helped the mental health of many during a very trying period. Research shows that very few people want to go back to “normal” after the worst of the crisis is over, and recognise that this is an important moment of change. The science is long settled. Climate heating is man-made, and net greenhouse gas emissions must be cut to zero (and eventually reversed). All major…
…. Mitigating climate change involves reducing emissions of the main gas that causes global heating, carbon dioxide (CO2). Adapting to climate change involves managing the physical, economic and social impacts of already inevitable climate disruption. Both have to be done in parallel. Our success in mitigating climate breakdown will play out over the medium- and long-term measured against…
… as a whole emitted 605,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases (CO2e) in 2018, equivalent to the emissions from burning about one and a half Cirencester leisure centre- sized pools of diesel every day. A bit less than half is from road travel (diesel and petrol), a third is from gas and other fuels for heating homes and workplaces, and 15% is from electricity for homes and workplaces. Some carbon is also…