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Hartlepool Borough Council

… to enshrine some environmental protection into law, offering new powers to set new binding targets for air quality, water, biodiversity net gain, and waste reduction Build Back Greener  The Government’s main climate change policy document is the Net Zero Strategy (Build Back Greener), first published on 19 October 2021 and updated in April 2022. It set out policies and proposals for decarbonising…

…. Carbon savings are expected to increase to 48.6tCO2 as we await data results to come in Biodiversity • Enhancing biodiversity, in particular invertebrates, within our parks • Creation of green corridors, wildflower meadows and herbicide-free zones • Previous works together with the Environment Agency on the re-naturalisation of Burn Valley Beck in 2010 Air Quality • No exceedance…

… Change Response and Net Zero There is a point we reach at which we must reconcile the things we see as notional and those we know to be based in fact and firm reasoning. The issue of climate change gets bounced around with some saying that we are part of the natural ebb and flow of a constantly altering, natural ecological cycle that will just ‘happen to us anyway’. Some will say…

… There is a very delicate relationship linking the climate, ecosystems, biodiversity and human society where changes to one affects all other aspects. Climate change is an all- encompassing issue that affects not just the environment but also socio-economic factors. The current rate of anthropogenic climate change and the compound stresses and events related to it pose a real challenge for people…

…, habitats, and species across the world to adapt to these sudden changes. It has affected every aspect of our lives and the effects are all interrelated. Climate change does not only mean rising global average temperatures. It also poses a wide range of global threats that have far-reaching implications for both natural ecosystems and human societies. A summary of the observed changes of mean…