| Carbon Management
Complementing our core business, Battle McCarthy
Carbon Management gives both technical and strategic advice
to companies and organisations wanting to understand and manage
their carbon dioxide emissions. As established members of
the business led UK Emissions Trading Group, and consultants
to 3 of the 34 direct participants in the UK Emissions Trading
Scheme, Battle McCarthy are well positioned to advise Clients
in this area.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Anthropogenic activities over the last century have been compellingly
linked to the rising trend in concentration of atmospheric
CO2 and global air temperatures. The potentially catastrophic
effects of these changes on our global ecosystem are increasingly
recognised, including rising sea levels and flooding contrasted
with water scarcity and sanitation problems, species displacement
and habitat loss, the spread north and south of tropical disease
and impact on agricultural productivity.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
published a report in 1990 demonstrating the rise in concentration
of green house gas (GHG) emissions. Since then it has been
proposed that in order to moderate the predicted temperature
increase to a rate that would not threaten the global environment
a global reduction of 60 per cent by 2050 would be required.
With the built environment accounting for 50 per cent of emissions
in the UK, a clear responsibility lies with the sector to
reduce CO2 emissions.
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