… offsetting and sequestration .........................................................................................17 5.0: The Path to becoming carbon neutral council ...............................................................................18 5.1: Vision .........................................................................................................................................18…
… capacity and an additional tree planting scheme. (APSE Energy, Guildford Borough Council – Net Zero Carbon Emissions Trajectory, July 2022) 4.5: Carbon offsetting and sequestration In the “Climate Change, Sustainable Design, Construction and Energy SPD”14 (adopted by GBC September 2020), an energy hierarchy was developed which set out the steps to be followed to reduce carbon emissions…
… is a compensation method of balancing carbon emissions. This can be achieved by developing or participating in schemes that remove, or prevent the generation of, the equivalent amount of carbon from those unavoidable GHG emissions. Carbon sequestration is the act of securely storing the carbon once removed from the atmosphere. It is estimated that by 2030 GBC will continue to produce approximately 733…