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Powys County Council

… threatens every aspect of life. Climate and ecological change is the globally defining challenge of our time. It impacts all living things on Earth, including you and me. Left unchecked, humans and nature will experience catastrophic warming with worsening droughts, greater sea level rise and mass extinction of species. We face a huge challenge, but there are solutions. Ambitious action…

… Land use and Agriculture - What more can we do? Areas to consider for our action plans Nature recovery to increase biodiversity Education of our environment and its impact needs to be better delivered to schools and communities Focus on supporting upland farmers and landowners to increase soil carbon and thus soil water storage capacity through improved grazing/pasture management…

… be done in the assessment of applications against the targets for net zero and natures recovery? Work with Welsh Government to alter the subsidy land owners already receive to produce food, to focus more on land management to maximise opportunities for carbon sequestration and promote more biodiversity and places for nature. Sell off more public buildings to simply reduce your corporate footprint…

… for activities that promote carbon sequestration (eg tree-planting), reduce agricultural carbon footprints and river pollution, and promote the expansion of biodiversity Council farms to be net zero by default more supportive of the Welsh Government's targets on phosphate levels in rivers. Encourage and facilitate tree planting and local water retention - Reduce the need to, for example, remove…

… Positive is a way of doing business which puts back more into society, the environment, and the global economy than it takes out. Climate resilient The ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to climate change. Ecosystems The ecosystem is the structural and functional unit of ecology where the living organisms interact with each other and the surrounding environment. In other words…