2016-10-11 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 8 - Delegations of Authority

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 OCTOBER 2016




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                             11 OCTOBER 2016

           Carbon Neutral                Means reducing your greenhouse gas emissions where possible
                                         and using offsets to compensate for the remainder to achieve zero
                                         net emissions.

           Carbon Offset                 ls a credible method of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide or
                                         greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for an emission
                                         made elsewhere.

           Climate Change                A change in the pattern of weather, and related changes in oceans,
                                         land surfaces and ice sheets, occurring over time scales of
                                         decades or longer that may be caused by natural or human
                                         induced activities.
           COQ2e                         Is an abbreviation of 'carbon dioxide equivalent’ and is the
                                         internationally recognised measure of greenhouse emissions.
                                         There are many types of greenhouse gases. Six such gases are
                                         controlled by the Kyoto protocol.
           Direct Emissions              Greenhouse gas emissions that are caused directly by actions
                                         taken by the owner or controlling entity.
           GHG Emissions Footprint       An inventory of all greenhouse gases produced to directly or
                                         indirectly support human activities within a defined boundary based
                                         on available data. Can also be referred to as a Carbon Footprint.
                                         The words greenhouse gas and carbon have become synonymous
                                         in everyday speech.
           Greenhouse Effect             The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere,
                                         due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible
                                         radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the
                                         planet's surface.
           Greenhouse Gas                Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to
                                         the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation produced by
                                         solar warming of the Earth's surface. They include carbon dioxide
                                         (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (NO2), and water vapour.
           Greenhouse (GHG) Protocol     Is an international accounting tool that sets the global standard for
                                         how to measure, manage, and report greenhouse emissions.
           GreenPower®                   The GreenPower® Program is a government managed scheme
                                         that enables Australian households and businesses to displace
                                         their electricity usage with certified renewable energy, which is
                                         added to the grid on their behalf to decrease greenhouse
                                         emissions due to electricity generation.
           Indirect Emissions            Greenhouse gas emissions that occur outside of the organisation
                                         but are generated upstream or downstream as a consequence of
                                         the organisation’s actions.

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