Including the closely related term government.
… Documents Blaenau Gwent Carbon Footprint 2018/19 Breakdown by Scope A1-A2 Carbon Data Sources 2018/19 A3-A6 Transition Pathway - Three major challenges in reaching carbon neutrality A7-A16 Behaviour and the ISM Tool in the Climate Change Plan A17 Climate Literacy Glossary A18 - 20 1 Our Ambition to be Carbon Neutral by 2030 We support Welsh Government’s ambition…
… be a residual 5% of emissions that is not technically feasible to eliminate by 2030. The Welsh Government ambition is for carbon neutrality across the entire Welsh public sector, i.e. some public sector organisations may be able to achieve negative emissions, to balance out unavoidable emissions in other organisations. Our contribution to this ambition will reflect future Welsh Government guidance…
… Sector to be carbon neutral is part of the Welsh Government’s delivery plan, ‘Prosperity for All: A Low Carbon Wales’. The plan outlines that achieving this ambition will require going beyond the most common public sector actions, such as delivering improvements to the efficiency of public sector buildings and the development of renewable energy solutions. It will also require…
… addressing other areas such as; decarbonisation of heat, procurement, and electrification of fleet. https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2019-06/low-carbon-delivery-plan_1.pdf 2 Climate Change and the need for Decarbonisation The 2015 Paris Agreement commits governments to keep global temperature rises well below 2oc above pre-industrial levels…
… by 2050 (against 1990 levels), and last year the UK’s Committee on Climate Change said it was realistic with existing technology for the UK as a whole to reach net zero emissions by 2050. The committee recommended a 95% reduction in Wales (due to Wales’s high concentration of industry and power generation), but the Welsh Government has announced its intention to go further and amend its…