Visualising place-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Visualising GHG emissions for neighbourhoods, places and districts using various data sources.

Examples:

• Hampshire (County level emissions estimates)
  • Eastleigh
    • Botley.
  • Southampton - latest local authority level emissions trends
  • Winchester
    • Hambledon - a good example of a rural parish with a large share (~75%) of territorial emissions from road transport, agriculture and domestic heating oil. These are partially ‘offset’ by negative emissions (sequestration) from land use, land use change and forestry.
    • Micheldever - a good example of how a major road/motorway (M3) can dominate territorial emissions estimates at the parish level.
  • New Forest
    • Sway - a good example of how a major waste management site (?) can dominate territorial emissions estimates at the parish level.
• Suffolk
  • East Suffolk - latest local authority level emissions trends
    • Badingham - strongly agricultural (arable), rural village, off-gas.
    • Framlingham - agricultural (arable), rural town, on-gas.
• Staffordshire
  • Staffordshire Moorlands - latest local authority level emissions trends
    • Longnor - strongly agricultural (dairy, sheep), off-gas

Code

See https://github.com/dataknut/emissionsViz.

Data

Data sources include:

• DESNZ UK local authority and regional greenhouse gas emissions national statistics
• CSE/Uni Exeter ‘impact’ tool parish level emissions estimates
• CREDS carbon.place LSOA level emissions estimates for England

Background

Borrows extensively from & was inspired by:

• work on visualising Hampshire emissions.

Tracking council policies and action

Try:

• https://www.climateemergency.uk/ and their associated data store