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… change, with the risk of “tipping points” or points of no return, has begun to be more widely appreciated. A revision of the Council’s Climate Strategy of 2008 has been overdue for strengthening for some time and what follows is an attempt, with targets, to set out, what the Council plans to do and some of things residents can do both to reduce climate change impact and to mitigate its effect. We…
…, Environment, Sustainability, Culture and Sport Committee LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES - CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2019-20244 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT There is a global consensus that we must take urgent action to tackle climate change before irreparable damage is done to our environment, which would have huge knock-on impacts for society and for the other species with which…
… LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES - CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2019-20241 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES Climate Emergency Strategy 2019-2024 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES - CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2019-20242 CONTENTS London Borough of Richmond upon Thames 1 Climate Emergency…
… Strategy 2019-2024 1 Foreword 3 Introduction and context 4 The threat of climate change 4 Sustainability 6 Impacts of Climate Change on Richmond upon Thames 7 The Climate Emergency Strategy and how it fits with other strategies 11 Implementing this strategy 12 The Richmond Climate Emergency Vision 13 Our Council: Becoming carbon neutral as an organisation by 2030 15 Our legacy: Climate Change…
… Mitigation and Energy Efficiency 22 Our waste: Waste and Plastics and the Circular Economy 29 Our air: Improving Air Quality 35 Our nature: Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity 42 Our water: Water Management and Flood Abatement 49 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES - CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY 2019-20243 Very late in the day, the existential and urgent crisis posed by climate…