…: Contribution of an intervention to biodiversity increase. This includes protecting existing ecosystems, animals and plants as well as investing in green and blue infrastructure. Carbon hotspots: Sources of high levels of carbon emissions, for organisations to focus their carbon reduction efforts on. Carbon insetting: The financing of carbon reduction or sequestration projects that reduce…
… carbon emissions outside of an organisation’s direct operations but within its own supply chain. Carbon neutral: Achieving a balance between the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere and those taken out. Carbon offsetting: The financing of carbon reduction or sequestration projects elsewhere, outside of an organisation’s direct operations, in order to ‘balance’ or compensate…
… that it’s indirectly responsible for, up and down its value chain. An example of this is when we buy, use and dispose of products from suppliers. Sequestration: The capturing, removal and storage of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It can be ‘indirect’ (e.g. natural sequestration through carbon sinks) or ‘direct/ artificial’ whereby carbon is purposefully captured and stored, often…
… for emissions. Carbon sink: Anything natural that absorbs and stores carbon from the atmosphere for long periods of time – for example, forests, grasslands, soil and the ocean. A biological or ‘indirect’ form of sequestration. Circular economy: An alternative to our current ‘linear’ materials and waste system (take-waste-dispose). In a circular economy waste is substantially reduced…
… indicates that further efficiencies are possible in terms of solid waste disposal and industrial energy consumption. • Land use acts as a net carbon sink in the District. This is calculated from ONS’s territorial carbon emissions data, which indicate forest land and grassland acting as positive actor in carbon sequestration. However, it is important to note that livestock is a carbon emitter…