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Setting and Achieving Ambitious Net Zero Carbon Targets

Learn how businesses can play a bigger role in tackling climate change with global solutions such as decarbonizing electricity grids, transportation, and reducing deforestation. Set your own reduction targets and become carbon neutral by calculating emissions, offsetting, and implementing energy-saving measures. Finance climate change solutions through carbon offsetting projects worldwide. Fund climate change initiatives through internal carbon taxes or investment funds. Join the rapid global movement towards a net zero carbon future. Contact John Buckley of Carbon Footprint Ltd.

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Setting and Achieving Ambitious Net Zero Carbon Targets

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  1. Setting and Achieving Ambitious Net Zero Carbon Targets John Buckley Managing Director Carbon Footprint Ltd

  2. We know we need to act faster… • Our businesses need to be responsible and play a bigger role in the solution to climate change • We have only a very short amount of time remaining if we are going to stop climate change

  3. The Solution to climate change needs to be a global solution… • Decarbonise the Electricity Grids Worldwide • Decarbonise transportation (Cars, Vans, Buses, Lorries, Trains, Planes, Ships etc.) • Stop deforestation (the cause of 10% of global emissions) • Reduce emissions from food supply (agriculture, soils, meet production) • Sequester / capture CO2 (e.g. plant billions of trees) • Become much more efficient with Energy

  4. Decarbonisation is starting to happen

  5. You need to set targets to decarbonise your business • Set your own reduction targets e.g. • Reduce emissions by 60% by 2030 • Reduce CO2 emissions per £million Turnover by 50% by 2025 • Science Based Targets • CDP • ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 • Net Zero / Carbon Neutral Target

  6. Government

  7. Councils declaring a Climate Change Emergency “… on 18 July, councillors unanimously called for a climate emergency to be declared, recognising the urgent need to take action to tackle this important issue through the council’s own work, that of our partners and in our communities. …. Make Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council operations carbon neutral by December 2025 by ensuring that 100% of its heating and electrical needs are met from renewable sources and cease the purchase and/or lease of any vehicle that is not low carbon; Pledge to work toward making Basingstoke and Deane net zero carbon by 2030, ahead of the current 2050 target, ensuring that reducing carbon emissions is embedded in all relevant council decision making…”

  8. Europe aiming to become the first Carbon Neutral Continent…

  9. Net Zero Carbon needs to be the standard for businesses too… The great thing is this is a relatively easy target to set and achieve But please, please, please… don’t wait for 2025 or 2050 We need to Act Now! Be bold and ambitious Set a target to be Net Zero Carbon within 12 months

  10. You can do this… Step 1 : Calculate your emissions (from over the last 12 months) Step 2 : Offset the emissions you have already made (i.e. those calculated in Step 1) Step 3 : Start reducing your emissions – so you don’t need to offset so much next year • Switching to a Green Energy Supplier • Finding ways to cut energy consumption in your business • Cut transport emissions • Set targets to reduce your Gross Emissions Step 4 : Repeat

  11. What is carbon offsetting… Help to finance projects around the world that provide the solution… • Decarbonise the Electricity Grids World Wide • Decarbonise transportation (Cars, Vans, Buses, Lorries, Trains, Planes, Ships etc.) • Stop deforestation (cause of 10% of global emissions –we are loosing the lungs of the planet) • Reduce emissions from food supply (agriculture, soils, meet production) • Sequester / capture CO2 (e.g. plant billions of trees) • Become more efficient with Energy

  12. A world of projects that need support…. • 100’s of projects to choose from. For example: • renewable energy projects (China, India, Indonesia) • reducing deforestation (Brazil & Kenya) • clean drinking water (Uganda) • improved household cookstoves (Kenya, India etc.)

  13. International Standards • Projects are verified and audited independently • Look out for the main internationally recognised carbon offsetting standards

  14. Is your business Funding Climate Change or Funding Climate Change Solutions • Setting a carbon reduction budget based on your emissions • “An Internal Carbon Tax” or “Climate Change Investment Fund” • e.g. £20 per tonne of CO2 (represents 1 - 9% of the energy cost) • Define a budget for internal and external spending e.g. • 75% on internal energy reduction initiatives • 25% on external carbon offsetting initiatives • Select Internal Carbon Reduction initiatives based on return on investment

  15. Climate Change needs a Rapid Global Solution • You can be part of the solution • Reducing your energy use and carbon emission is a good thing to do • However, reducing by a few % a year is not fast enough • More and more businesses are becoming Carbon Neutral / Net Zero Carbon • Councils, Countries and Continents are setting Net Zero Carbon Targets Your business can do this too And you need to do it Now!

  16. Thank you John Buckley Carbon Footprint Ltd john.buckley@carbonfootprint.com 01256 592599

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