Including the closely related terms carbon sequestration, carbon economy, and carbon storage.
… Strategy and Plan • Biodiversity Strategy and Plan • Carbon and Energy Management Strategy and Plan Combining climate (mitigation and adaptation) and nature topics into a single strategy (with supporting plans as appendices) is the preferred option. This approach reaffirms the importance of place, everything happens somewhere, particularly when delivering interventions for mitigation, adaptation…
… the transition to a low carbon economy and nature recovery. The climate and nature challenge Average global temperatures are rising causing dramatic changes to climate, environment and health and wellbeing. These ‘warming stripe’ graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in England over the past 100+ years, each stripe or bar represents the temperature over a year…
…. 9 Cumbria Community Risk Register 10 Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat 2021 https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/ https://legacy.cumberland.gov.uk/emergencyplanning/supportingpages/crr.asp https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5419124441481216 8 • Increased demand for welfare and local interventions to sustain…
…-benefits of warmer more efficient homes, better food and diets, opportunities for active travel, better air quality, better mental and physical health, and more access to enhanced green spaces. • Narrowing the gaps in health inequalities for our most vulnerable communities. • Green growth and inward investment in a low carbon economy, creating new skills and jobs. • Reductions in waste…
… and services, creating new skills and jobs in farming and other land use change. • Greater understanding and appreciation of nature’s role within the landscape. The potential of nature and ‘eco-system services’ are fully realised across Cumberland for the value it brings to health and wellbeing, carbon sequestration, improved air quality and access to green spaces (footpath network renewal). 11…