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Policies and Wider Impacts
Supporting environmental policies, measures and action
Businesses and local and national governments are responding to challenges to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants in the atmosphere. Aether’s policy review and analysis can provide customers with the evidence base for further action. This can be through qualitative and quantitative analysis, including potential co-benefits. We can support with the preparation of submissions for international reporting of policies and measures. This service is closely linked to Aether’s inventory and projections support services.
Supporting decision making
Actions, policies and measures that focus on reducing greenhouse gases and air pollutants can be at the business, organisational, national, city or local level. They can be short term and/or long term. They may focus on a specific sector (such as policies to encourage a modal shift to cycling and public transport) or be more cross-cutting (such as a national energy efficiency plan).
Aether supports customers with high quality analysis on the impacts of possible actions and their wider co-benefits or possible dis-benefits. Aether provides tailored services ranging from review/assessment of data and systems through innovative training and capacity building solutions to complete hassle free data gathering, compilation and reporting services. Analysis of the GHG and wider impacts of mitigation actions can support decision making processes and business cases for action.
Policy analysis and reporting
Air pollutant and greenhouse gas projections provide a baseline and possible future scenarios. Aether’s expertise in data gathering, analysis and forecasting helps our customers to establish achievable targets for improved environmental performance.
We are increasingly working with local authorities in the UK on modelling pathways to net zero targets set by climate emergency declarations. These pathways can be used to support decision making on climate action and building back better from Covid-19.
Co-benefits of policies and measures
Integrating effective environmental action into economic, social and sustainable development requires more than the simple presentation of actions, their costs and environmental benefits. It requires a broader consideration of the wider impacts (co-benefits and adverse impacts) of the action with respect to core economic, social and sustainable development goals.
Net zero
In efforts to mitigate climate change, governments and organisations are setting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” or carbon neutral. We work with local authorities to develop their routes to net zero through baselining their carbon footprint, reviewing local and national policies, stakeholder engagement, and then modelling pathways to net zero using our Carbon Scenario Model.
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