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… to hopefully agree the next steps in tackling climate change and boosting our natural environment. And I congratulate the UK government for committing in April to set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law, in order to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. I am also thrilled to read of the Queen’s Green Canopy, a national programme of tree planting…
… UK Government published carbon conversion factors (BEIS, 2020c). The Council will use the most up to date conversion factors each time it updates this Plan or reports on its carbon footprint. The key conversion factors used (for this second Plan, June 2021) are as follows: Energy Type Conversion factor Fuels Natural Gas 0.18385 kg CO2e / kWh (Gross CV) Diesel (average biofuel blend…
… Various Various (dependant on fuel type) Table: Key GHG conversion factors (BEIS 2020) Overall Summary The carbon footprint of East Cambridgeshire District Council (as an organisation) comprises emissions that occur as a result of the Council’s own operations. We have calculated the carbon footprint of the Council’s own operations in line with the UK Government’s Environmental Reporting…
… and feasibility of reaching net zero carbon emissions by the Council by 2050”. The relevance of 2050 is important: it is the same year legally committed to by UK government, whereby UK greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 should be net zero emissions7. However, even since October 2019, the urgency to reach net zero as soon as possible is ever increasing, and the importance of deep, early cuts to emissions…
… is increasingly needed. For example, national Government itself has recently (April 2021) committed to a 78% cut by 2035, as a step towards net zero by 2050. And new analysis shows that, across Cambridgeshire, we are starting at a higher baseline than most other area - our emissions are approximately 25% higher per person than the UK average8. Put another way, we have only about 6 years remaining under…