Including 12 closely related terms such as low carbon technology, carbon, and low carbon.
… to limit warming to 1.5°C. National Context In the UK the Climate Change Act 2008 set a target to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. The UK Committee on Climate Change provides the fve yearly carbon budgets which aim to reduce carbon emissions by 3% year on year. It describes how carbon is emitted in the UK from vehicles run on fossil fuels including petrol and diesel, from buildings…
… heated by gas, oil or coal and from power stations burning gas or oil to create electricity. It guides the Government on the measures needed to reduce carbon emissions including the move from producing electricity from fossil fuels to low carbon methods, changing transport from fossil fuels to low carbon and reducing carbon from homes, farming and industry. In 2019 the Act was amended to respond…
… as substantially reducing carbon emissions this Council must also adapt to climate change. The Climate Change Act 2008 requires a Climate Change Risk Assessment every fve years, and this sets out the risks and opportunities arising from climate change in the UK. The 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment sets out a pathway for the UK’s infrastructure for the next 30 years. It recognises the challenges…
… Theme 2 - Buildings Our aim for buildings: To support the change from heating and cooling buildings using fossil fuels to low carbon technology and reducing energy needs by increasing energy efciency. Changes in building regulations over the past four decades have resulted in newer homes being more energy efcient than older homes. People living in more efcient homes generally have lower fuel…
… to the insulation of their homes, but it is likely that the homes that have been improved could beneft from further insulation works and improved heating systems. There are still a signifcant number of poorly insulated homes where improvements in efciency would lower heating costs and so reduce carbon emissions and fuel poverty. The Government’s Green Homes Grant Scheme, due to open for applications…