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Bridgend County Borough Council

… ...........................................................................33 Action Plan 6 – Waste ..................................................................................37 References ...............................................................................................................39 Bridgend 2030 Net Zero Carbon Strategy 5 The Climate Emergency in Wales Immediate and bold action to tackle climate change is more crucial now than…

…. The State of the UK Climate Report 2020 prepared by the Met Office set out that in the space of 30 years, the UK has become 0.9°C warmer and 6% wetter. In April 2019, with cross-party support, the Senedd was the first Parliament in the world to declare a Climate Emergency2. Increased public awareness has led to calls for greater action to be taken to tackle climate change. This has also led…

… Bridgend 2030 Net Zero Carbon Strategy Foreword Climate change is recognised as the biggest threat facing our planet today. Resulting in the World Health Organisation placing climate change and air pollution at the very top of its list of threats to public health. It is also why Bridgend County Borough Council (BCBC) declared its…

… ever before. There is now unprecedented political recognition of a global Climate Emergency. In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report detailing the short amount of time we have left to tackle widespread climate breakdown. They stated that we have until 2030 to cut our carbon emissions to a level that limits global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C…

… above pre-industrial levels. This has culminated in the Paris Climate Change Agreement in COP 15, in which 189 countries united to ratify a legally bound commitment to act to limit global temperature rise this century1, and now in the recent COP 26 meeting in Glasgow, in October 2021, specific climate change mitigation actions are agreed to stop deforestation, cut methane, and end coal…