Including the closely related terms government, and uk government.
… emission reduction commitments. In June 2019, the UK Parliament passed legislation (2019 Climate Change Act) requiring the UK Government to reduce the UK’s net emissions of GHGs by 100% relative to 1990 levels by 2050. Doing so would make the UK a net zero emitter. Prior to this, the UK was committed to reducing net GHG emissions by at least 80% of their 1990 levels, also by 2050. In June 2021…
…, the UK Government enshrined in law a new climate change target to reduce GHG emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. This takes the UK more than three-quarters of the way to reaching net zero by 20505. The UK Government published a Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution6 (November 2020) and an Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy7 (March 2021) that sets out its vision…
… the 5 The estimates of the UK’s GHG emissions used as the baseline for monitoring the Climate Change Act net zero target include and exclude specific activity. For more information: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/articles/netzeroandthedifferentofficialmeasuresoftheuksgreenhousegasemissi ons/2019-07-24 6 UK Government Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution (November…
… have been calculated using the most recent data available from the 2018/19 financial year, converting all outputs into a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) figure using UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2018. 13 Nottingham City Council: Carbon Neutral Nottingham 2020–2028 Action Plan (June 2020) https…
… through a successful SBC bid to UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation compliment the direct wired solar farm Scheme. The battery will store c.402,000 kWh of the excess generation each year from Barnfield Solar Farm that is currently sold to the grid. This will be used instead to supply Waterside. A6 Purchase of 15 ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEVs) as part of the wider Council…