Including 6 closely related terms such as tree planting, extensive tree planting, and trees.
… everyone to take action too. Recent progress includes using renewable electricity for our buildings, carrying out extensive tree planting, placing climate change at the centre of our draft Gosport Borough Local Plan 2038, helping establish Greening Campaigns across Gosport to help whole communities work together to become more sustainable, and creating the Gosport Climate Change Partnership…
… emissions that it offsets. Net-zero This is shorthand for net greenhouse gas emissions being zero. Offsetting Activities that do not directly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, but either prevent emissions or degradation of carbon sinks elsewhere, or increase absorption of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Absorption of greenhouse gases can be achieved directly, for example by planting…
… trees, or indirectly by purchasing offset credits from a certified scheme that guarantees to implement measures that will absorb greenhouse gases. Prevention of emissions or degradation of carbon sinks can only be achieved by purchasing offset credits, and the availability of these will decrease to zero as net-zero emissions are achieved globally. Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions…