What does the Paris Climate Change Agreement mean for local policy? Downscaling the remaining global carbon budget to sub-national areas.

Published: 11 July 2022| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/w3tcxwgt7n.1
Contributors:
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, Kevin Anderson, Carly Mclachlan, John Broderick

Description

This dataset has carbon budgets for the UK sub-national areas that are derived from the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement. The budgets are for only carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the energy system (power, heat, cooling, surface transport and industry) for the time period of 2020 to 2100. This dataset is for all the UK local authorities and can be viewed on the website https://carbonbudget.manchester.ac.uk/.

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The University of Manchester

Categories

Local Government, Carbon Budget, Climate Change, Climate Change Mitigation, Emission Target, Greenhouse Gas

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