… aim for net zero by 2050 with emissions reduced by 45% by 2030. At a national policy level, the Climate Change Act 2008 set a legally binding, UK -wide carbon emissions reduction target of 80% by 2050 from a 1990 baseline with emission reductions divided into interim five-yearly targets. However, in its Progress Report to Parliament in June 2018, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC…
… leadership now rests on continuing the reduction in power sector emissions. However, in June 2019, following updated advice from the CCC in its report ‘Net Zero – The UK’s contribution to stopping global warming’, the Government amended the Climate Change Act from an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050 against a 1990 baseline , to a target Net Zero Carbon target. More recently the Court…
… of Net Zero Carbon by 2050. The commitment of TBC is to aspire to achieving Carbon Neutrality in its own offices by 2030. 2.1 DECARBONISATION OF ELECTRICITY, GAS AND TRANSPORT The national context as described above, presupposes the decarbonisation of the national energy grids in terms of both gas and electricity by that date either in isolation or with some form of offsetting…
… to the Greenhouse Gas emissions associated with the business operations. The challenge of achieving net zero by 2030 is 20 years ahead of the government’s target of 2050 and consequently the council must take positive action to achieve this well ahead of the theoretical decarbonisation of the grid supplies. Figure 1 below represents the CO2 emissions in Tonnes associated with TBC’s activities from…
… 2.1.2 GAS 458.74 Tonnes CO2e 28.67% of total emissions The position regarding the decarbonisation of gas both for use in the production of electricity and for heat is less clear. In December 2019 the Energy Networks Association (ENA) published a report titled ‘Pathways to Net-Zero: Decarbonising the Gas Networks in Great Britain’4. By 2050 the ENA estimate that the current…