Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… .................................................................................................................. 49 9 SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Tewkesbury Borough Council (TBC) has declared a Climate Change Emergency and aspires to achieving Carbon Neutrality in its own offices by 2030. TBC commissioned this study to produce a current status baseline and first stage Action Plan relating to the council’s own buildings and business-related transport, in response to the emergency…
… of international and national studies, strategies and policies, provide the background to the need for emitters to consider reducing their contribution t o climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At an international level, on the 12th December 2015 the Paris agreement was reached coming into force in November the following year. The aim was to combat climate change…
… and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius…
…. In October 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a speci al report on ‘Global Warming of 1.5°C’, following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2015. The report reviewed the differences in impacts and benefits between limiting the average rise in global temperature to 1.5°C versus 2°C. It found that a 2°C rise is significantly more disruptive, harmful, damaging…
… aim for net zero by 2050 with emissions reduced by 45% by 2030. At a national policy level, the Climate Change Act 2008 set a legally binding, UK -wide carbon emissions reduction target of 80% by 2050 from a 1990 baseline with emission reductions divided into interim five-yearly targets. However, in its Progress Report to Parliament in June 2018, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC…