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… 12 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP 12 EARLY STEPS 12 MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION 20 LEANER USE OF ENERGY 22 CLEAN ENERGY 23 CLEAN TRAVEL 24 WISER DECISIONS 25 MORE CARBON STORAGE 26 A CLEAR VIEW OF CLIMATE RISK 27 ADAPTATION 28 WIDER CLIMATE UNDERSTANDING 29 ADEQUATE RESOURCING 30 STRONG PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS 31 EVIDENCE INFORMED ACTION 32 APPENDIX: Build your own Cool action plan 34…

… thing will bring many benefits. Cool 2 indicates where we need to be, the direction of travel to get there, and some early steps so we can move quicker. In Wirral, to meet our fair share of the global effort to tackle climate change we need: - Deep and fast cuts in climate damaging pollution. We must reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution by around three and a half times more each year than we…

… travel by around 2030. - Wiser decisions so we don’t add pollution indirectly. This means changes to our diets with less meat, a big reduction in waste, and more careful choices about what we buy and how we live and work. - More trees and woodlands to capture and store carbon naturally. - A greater understanding of climate risks both now and in the future. - Changes to the way we do things…

…% TRANSPORT 26% 2005 201420132012201120102009200820072006 CO 2 ki lo to nn es 2015 1,700 500 700 900 1,100 1,300 1,500 1,900 2,100 300 2016 Industry and Commercial Domestic Transport COOL 2 A STRATEGY FOR WIRRAL IN THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY 8 GOALS 12. Taken from the Wirral report generated by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change local carbon budget tool. A more…

… pollution we can risk without breaking globally agreed temperature limits. This is referred to as our remaining ‘carbon budget’. Our local ‘fair share’ of the global budget for 2020 to 2100 has been calculated to be 7.7 million tonnes of CO2. Staying within this local budget means sharp reductions in emissions from Wirral each year. Without such reductions we could use up our entire local budget…