Carbon Budget Milestone

Carbon Budget

Year budgets exhausted at current emissions levels

2030

15,490,727 Tonnes

2025

2050

26,359,408 Tonnes

2029

As determined from the calculations, without emissions reductions the City of Windsor will exhaust the 2030 carbon budget in 2025 and the 2050 carbon budget in 2029.

it should be noted that the emissions reduction targets for carbon budgeting are significantly more aggressive than Windsor's current community energy plan emissions reduction target. The CEP target, current emissions projection and carbon budget trajectories are displayed in Figure 2 below.

Carbon Budgeting Projections

Figure 2 - Carbon Budget timeline compared to emissions reduction trajectory per the Community Energy Plan as well as forecast future emissions.

To be in accordance with IPCC C40 carbon budget the City's target would need to reduce to 3.2 tonnes by year 2030 or approximately 64% below 2017 levels by 2030.