… such as flooding • Duties and powers to protect the environment, wildlife and heritage • Duties to collect and dispose of waste • Borrowing and investment powers The Council’s Climate Change Working Group has been working through the wider issue of greenhouse gas emissions from the Borough, considering greenhouse gas emissions from travel and transport, housing, industry, agriculture, land use…
… - CURRENT EMISSIONS PROFILE HIGH PEAK – CURRENT EMISSIONS PROFILE The Governments Department for Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes an annual data set of data for Local Authority territorial CO2e emissions estimates. The latest data set is for 2018. 2018 Emissions Industry and Commercial Domestic Transport Land Use Net Emissions Total Kt CO2e 2,543.20 151.7 154.8 -16.7 2,833.00…
… Since 2005 CO2e emissions in the Borough have fallen. The decarbonisation of electricity supplies has played a significant part in this. Domestic Total Transport Total Land Use Net Emissions Industry and Commercial Total Grand Total Grand Total -500.0 - 500.0 1,000.0 1,500.0 2,000.0 2,500.0 3,000.0 3,500.0 4,000.0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Industry…
… and Commercial Total Domestic Total Transport Total Land Use Net Emissions Overall emissions in High Peak are very high compared to other districts and to the national average – as measured by emissions per head of population (per capita). The most significant factor is the presence in the Borough of cement manufacture – the chemical process involved produces large quantities of CO2e. HIGH PEAK…