Manchester will close in 2027 if carbon targets are met – Is it up with that?

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

This is really hilarious!

Manchester will blow away its carbon budget for the rest of this century within the next five years if urgent action is not taken, councilors have been warned. If the city continues on its current trajectory, it will exceed its carbon budget of 15 MtCO2 set for the 82-year to 2100 period around 2027.

Manchester Council declared a climate emergency three years ago and the city now has a target of becoming net zero carbon no later than 2038. Town Hall is on track to halve its own carbon emissions. themselves by 2025, after reducing their carbon footprint. Live stream using 30 computers from 2020.

A refreshed action plan, approved by the council’s chief executive officer this week, documents the progress made in retrofitting buildings to make them more efficient, installing LED street lights and use of electric garbage trucks. But councils account for only about 3 percent of the city’s carbon emissions.

Councilors were warned of the challenges ahead when an updated climate change framework for the city was adopted on Wednesday (September 14). They were told the city would use up its carbon budget by 2027 if it continued to reduce emissions by about 5 percent per year, as it did before the pandemic.

Labor commissioner Tracey Rawlins, executive member for environment and transport, said the framework was a ‘call to action’. “The city as a whole is not progressing as quickly as we should,” she said.

“The emissions that we are responsible for as an organization are quite small. We’re doing what we can, but it’s really important that we keep pushing that.”

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It doesn’t take genius to discover that while councils can save a bit of energy here and there, introduce a few electric vans, etc., whatever they do on their own is worth it. is a pure signal.

As the report notes, councils account for only 3% of the city’s emissions, most of which is completely outside the council’s control, and indeed the city’s.

The electricity that Manchester uses comes from the grid, so there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it. The vast majority of drivers in Manchester own petrol/diesel cars, and their cargo and passengers are carried on good, old diesel-powered buses and buses.

And how do the Mancunians warm their homes? (By the way, I note that the City Council has not decided to spend hundreds of millions of its budget to insulate all homes, not just council homes, install heat pumps and solar panels I wonder why?)

As with every local council that has followed the same route, Manchester’s councilors have no doubt about themselves when they declare a climate emergency. But they were not prepared to put their money (i.e. taxpayers’ money) in their mouths.