Including the closely related terms carbon, carbon budget, and carbon budget.
… their experiences. The aim is to create shareable and relatable content to encourage and guide wider practical household action. Energy Projects Plus Wirral Council Support development of ‘locally determined contributions’ ‘Cool communities’ programme The first Cool strategy set an objective to increase the number of low carbon community/transition town type groups. One new group was formed…
…’ pollution soon There is only so much more greenhouse gas pollution we can risk without breaking globally agreed temperature limits. This is referred to as our remaining ‘carbon budget’. Our local ‘fair share’ of the global budget for 2020 to 2100 has been calculated to be 7.7 million tonnes of CO2. Staying within this local budget means sharp reductions in emissions from Wirral each year…
… and a half times more. 12 Taken from the Wirral report generated by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change local carbon budget tool. A more recent version of the tool with updated emissions data indicates the need to reach near zero by 2042. 13 Ideally, we need to reduce pollution by more than 13.4% early on. Doing this would help stretch our remaining budget over a longer period. If we do…
… not manage to achieve at least a 13.4% reduction in the first years from 2020 we risk using up our remaining budget sooner so would need to achieve higher annual savings thereafter. Cool 2 – A strategy for Wirral in the face of the global climate emergency 9 Figure 3: Paris Agreement compatible local carbon ‘budget’ descent pathway…
… for Wirral (13.4% reduction per year) compared with present pathway (3.8% reduction per year) 14 14 Based on information generated by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change local carbon budget tool Cool 2 – A strategy for Wirral in the face of the global climate emergency 10 OBJECTIVES To stand a chance of staying…