…? It’s inevitable that there will be some carbon emissions from activities that cannot be avoided, and therefore if we want to see a world without any damaging carbon in our atmosphere then that carbon needs to be destroyed or absorbed and stored safely. This is the meaning of carbon sequestration (or ‘carbon removal’). Research and new technologies are being developed in order…
… not appear to be significant, but we must remember that the Emissions Sequestration Net zero 7 Climate and Nature Emergency Plan / Gwynedd Council Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that insects, which are vital for pollination of crops and plants, will loose half their habitats following an increase of 1.5°C, but the probability will double with an increase of 2…
…, Chief Executive, Chief Officers, Biodiversity Champion and a representative of the Communities Scrutiny Committee. One element of regular monitoring is data collection of carbon emissions and sequestration, and we do this by following Welsh Government’s methodology (Welsh Public Sector Net Zero Carbon Reporting Guide). The results of annual data collation will be published in Gwynedd…
… Council’s Annual Performance Report, and following publication we will also review this plan to ensure that we are on the right track to realise our ambition by 2030. We have already collected data on carbon emissions and sequestration for the years 2019/20 and 2020/21. We have some reservations about the methodology used, especially for measuring the procurement upstream and downstream chains…
… and policies, and indeed it is essential that the principles of this plan are entrenched across all the council’s activities. Many of the action points for the future are likely to sit within other strategies or action plans. A current list of active strategies is listed in chapter 15, but it is open to constant adaptation. Measuring carbon emissions and sequestration As already mentioned…