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London Borough of Harrow

… measures such as roof and wall insulation, and connecting properties to district heating systems; investing in alternatives to gas heating, such as ground source and air source heat pump technologies; and reducing car journeys by prioritising active and public transport, combined with electrification of the remaining vehicles. 3.20 Scope 2 emissions reflect the fact that nationally our…

… Plan, all major residential developments (i.e. 10 or more dwellings) are expected to achieve net zero carbon development. As a minimum there needs to be at least a 35% reduction in CO2 emissions (relative to the Building Regulations) achieved through on-site measures as part of the actual development (for example, energy efficient lights, triple glazing, low carbon heating systems, solar PV…

…. Together these GHGs operate to trap heat in the atmosphere. This is an essential thermostatic function of our planetary system, for without this warming effect much of the sun’s heat would radiate out into space leaving the earth too cold for life. Too great a concentration of greenhouse gases, though, has the opposite result, leading to global heating and potentially dramatic changes…

… to the earth’s climate and associated impacts upon ecosystems. 3.6 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is reporting that global atmospheric heating over pre-industrial levels currently stands at around 1°C. This relatively low figure is because over 90% of the additional heating effect caused by human activity has so far been absorbed by the world’s oceans, along with a significant…

… Data 3.16 The internationally adopted Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides a high level framework of three ‘scopes’ for categorising the sources of an area’s GHG emissions: Scope 1: direct emissions produced by sources in the area (eg road transport and gas heating); Scope 2: indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy used in the area (ie electricity); Scope 3…