Energy and CO2 Projections for Local Authority Areas

The Challenge
The government is committed to long-term targets in CO2 reduction and the Committee on Climate Change will be advising on the level for the UK's first three carbon budgets. Regions and local bodies are being increasingly called on by central government to provide added value in delivering sustainable development and many have identified per capita reductions in CO2 emissions as a key target in regional strategies and Local Area Agreements.

To set informed targets or aspirations for reductions in CO2 emissions locally, local bodies have to address the complex issue of how changes in economic activity might impact on CO2 emissions as well the impact that international, national and sector-based initiatives focused on achieving environmental outcomes will have on economic development opportunities.

Our Offer
CE offers local policy makers key tools to support them in this task:

• Executive briefing document
  • 3-4 page summary document designed to provide ‘headline’ assessment of the current pattern of energy use and CO2 emissions and the likely future trends and outcomes
• Underpinning data sets
  • Key economic indicators for the local economy
  • Energy use and CO2 emissions by broad sector
  • Energy use and CO2 emissions by broad sector and fuel

The projections

• Are consistent with the local area data sets published by DECC.
• Draw on CE’s established national and international reputation for understanding the links between the economy, energy and the environment and analysing regional and industrial structural change
• Use CE’s detailed projections for local economic change and its published forecasts for energy use and CO2 emissions in the UK
• Use data on the detailed industrial pattern of regional energy use and CO2 commissioned by SCPnet.

 

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For further information email:
Anthony Barker
Director