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Infrastructure Act 2015 - Chapter 7

Approved

This act makes provisions for a range of infrastructure projects and strategies across the country. It notably makes provisions to enable building regulations to provide for off-site carbon abatement measures. Art. 49 focuses on seeking advice on likely impact of onshore petroleum on the carbon budget.&nbsp; Part 2 deals with walking and cycling strategies to be set out by the Secretary of State.

Infrastructure Act 2015

Any compulsory, unrequited payment to the government levied on corporations or individuals. This can be for environmental reasons, such as introducing a Carbon tax to set a price that emitters must pay for the greenhouse gases they emit.

A subsidy is a direct or indirect payment to individuals or businesses, typically provided as a government cash payment or a specific tax reduction.

Financial support to help individuals manage the effects of unexpected events, securing their livelihoods and increasing the resilience of people and businesses to the changing climate. It’s especially vital in developing regions where everyday risks, climate-related weather extremes, or crop failures can push people into poverty. Without insurance, people may have to resort to selling assets or cutting consumption to cope with losses.

Compulsory, required payments to the government that are levied more-or-less in proportion to the services provided. Fees and charges range from entrance fees to national parks, charges on land-based sewage discharge.

A loan is a policy instrument where funds are provided to a borrower with the expectation of repaying the principal plus interest.

Zoning and spatial planning are both methods for guiding the distribution of people and activities in a space, and are regulatory restriction.

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

A commitment to balance GHG emissions with removal by a certain point in time, effectively reducing the net emissions to zero

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

A target to reduce the prevalence of a greenhouse gas over a specific time frame

A long-lived, colourless gas, chiefly emitted from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and cement production.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

A potent, short-lived greehouse gas, largely released from livestock, fossil fuel extraction and waste management.

Actions or measures to adapt terrestrial systems to climate change.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater systems to climate change.

Actions or measures to adapt freshwater, coastal and marine systems to climate change.

Heat extracted from the ground, usually in the form of hot water or steam and typically referred to as hydrothermal fluid.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.

The activities of industries involved in the production, distribution, and sale of energy, including electricity, gas, and renewables.

This sector creates and distributes information and entertainment through television, radio, print, and digital platforms.

Activities of industries that extract natural resources, such as mining, oil, and gas, for commercial use.

Activities that relate to the production of goods and services from forests.

This sector involves managing waste treatment, sanitation, pollution control and environmental cleanup.

Activities that involve planning, designing and building infrastructure, residential, and commercial structures.

This sector provides communication services, software development, and IT solutions.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

Geohazards are adverse geological phenomenon's that are capable of causing widespread damage or loss to property, life and the environment, such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsunamis. Climate change can increase the frequency and severity of some geohazards, such as landslides, and soil erosion.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeen City

Argyll and Bute

Isle of Anglesey [Sir Ynys Môn GB-YNM]

Ards and North Down

Antrim and Newtownabbey

Angus

Bath and North East Somerset

Blackburn with Darwen

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Bedford

Barking and Dagenham

Brent

Bexley

Belfast City

Bridgend [Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr GB-POG]

Blaenau Gwent

Birmingham

Buckinghamshire

Barnet

Brighton and Hove

Barnsley

Bolton

Blackpool

Bracknell Forest

Bradford

Bromley

Bristol, City of

Bury

Cambridgeshire

Caerphilly [Caerffili GB-CAF]

Central Bedfordshire

Causeway Coast and Glens

Ceredigion [Sir Ceredigion]

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Calderdale

Clackmannanshire

Cumbria

Camden

Carmarthenshire [Sir Gaerfyrddin GB-GFY]

Cornwall

Coventry

Cardiff [Caerdydd GB-CRD]

Croydon

Conwy

Darlington

Derbyshire

Denbighshire [Sir Ddinbych GB-DDB]

Derby

Devon

Dumfries and Galloway

Doncaster

Dundee City

Dorset

Derry and Strabane

Dudley

Durham, County

Ealing

East Ayrshire

Edinburgh, City of

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

Eilean Siar

Enfield

England

East Renfrewshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

Essex

East Sussex

Falkirk

Fife

Flintshire [Sir y Fflint GB-FFL]

Fermanagh and Omagh

Gateshead

Glasgow City

Gloucestershire

Greenwich

Gwynedd

Halton

Hampshire

Havering

Hackney

Herefordshire

Hillingdon

Highland

Hammersmith and Fulham

Hounslow

Hartlepool

Hertfordshire

Harrow

Haringey

Isles of Scilly

Isle of Wight

Islington

Inverclyde

Kensington and Chelsea

Kent

Kingston upon Hull

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