11/11/2024 | 0 min read
The aim of this guidance is to assist greenhouse gas (GHG) practitioners with addressing GHG emissions assessment, mitigation and reporting in statutory and non-statutory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). It is a revision of the 2017 IEMA guidance on Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Evaluating their Significance. It complements IEMA’s latest guide on Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation published in 2020 and builds on the Climate Change Mitigation and EIA overarching principles.
This guidance has been developed by an IEMA Impact Assessment Working Group on GHG Assessment from a wide range of organisations representing leading practitioners, from across the UK. These guidelines will help practitioners understand and record the GHG implications of developments, and through iterative design and the application of the mitigation hierarchy, lead to reduced GHG emissions from major developments.
“As highlighted by the IPPC report published today, urgent and wide-ranging GHG reductions are required to meet the decarbonisation trajectory towards a net zero economy. EIA has a key role to play in assessing the effects of major infrastructure proposals in terms of their impact on the climate through GHG emissions.
I am pleased to see IEMA's continued focus on this critical topic with updated guidance on this area based on leading practitioners' insights from the past 5 years' practice.”
Dr Rufus Howard, Impact Assessment Policy Lead, IEMA.
Report here
