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… on the function of emissions reductions over time in Edinburgh. The emissions factors applied to the transport sector are representative of particulates and non-CO2 greenhouse gases that usually exert a far greater ‘radiative forcing’ effect than carbon dioxide per unit energy consumed, and hence contribute hugely toward overall emissions reduction pathways. See Figure.9 overleaf for an immediate…

…-reduction Pathways This is only a small sample of the scale of deployment required across hundreds of interventions, properties, and transport modes, achievable only through the combined efforts of multiple stakeholder groups (including the City of Edinburgh Council). In short, there is a hugely ambitious scale – and urgency – with which the recommended portfolio of cross-sectoral interventions…

… as a whole and determines the emissions pathways and decarbonisation interventions that the city could institute at a high level, under various intervention scenarios. These interventions are not attributed to individual institutions or organisations and the analysis applies to the city as a collective. 4.2 In this sense, the research provides us with independent baseline information and analysis…

… these measures could institute when applied in Edinburgh. Interventions are ‘ranked’ on their cost- and carbon-effectiveness as investments and a case can be made for the prioritisation of certain interventions in a very specific context for Edinburgh. This report focusses on the city as a whole, and determines the emissions pathways and decarbonisation opportunities that the city can institute…

…, without significant additions of local actions the ‘Business as Usual’ projections hold Edinburgh to a course far off-target from the net zero aims. Figure.6: Baseline & Sectoral Emissions with Future Target Pathways Baseline emissions (shown in Figure.6 above in dark blue) aggregate Edinburgh’s sectoral emissions from Scopes 1 & 2 on an annual basis (shown in shaded areas…