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… County Council’s website3. The strategy supports the shared ambition of Surrey’s 12 local authorities for Surrey’s residents to live in clean, safe and green communities, where people and organisations embrace their environmental responsibilities and sets out the collective approach to do our part to tackle climate change. The Action Plan is supported by the emission baseline set out…
… 1 Surrey Heath Borough Council Climate Change Action Plan Climate Emergency Declaration On the 9th of October 2019, the Council declared a Climate Emergency and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2030 across its own estate and operations, including contractors used, and support the actions being taken by Surrey County…
… Council in this area. Introduction Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing our society. The scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change is overwhelming and will have a lasting impact on people and wildlife1. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018 report2 makes clear that the impacts of climate change are being experienced now through unprecedented global…
… trends and through more localised severe weather events. The Climate Emergency declared by the Council recognises that climate change is happening, and that action needs to be taken now, both to mitigate and to adapt. The Surrey Heath Climate Change Action Plan has two key aims: 1. To work towards achieving the ambitious net-zero carbon emission target by 2030 as an organisation and contribute…
… to making the Borough net zero by 2050 (with the aspiration for net zero by 2030). 2. To ensure that the Council as an organisation is resilient to the impacts of climate change and support the resilience of the Borough to the impacts of climate change. 1 Appendix 1 provides links to the key sources of scientific evidence for anthropogenic climate change. 2 V Masson-Delmotte et al.: Global…