Including the closely related terms carbon emission, and carbon.
… of full council, Lancaster City Council declared a climate emergency. The motion included the following ‘Lancaster City Council has already committed to reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050, but the recent IPCC Report shows it is imperative that this target is reached much sooner. Lancaster City Council can play its role. Business as usual is clearly no longer an option. We need…
… local wisdom to increase our resilience and to prepare for the climate changes already in the system’. The declaration included a commitment to ‘convene a citizens’ assembly to help identify how our activities can be made net-zero carbon by 2030’. Nationwide there is increasing interest in the use of such processes, for example at a national level, 2020 saw six Select Committees…