Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… Climate Change Policy BARROW BOROUGH COUNCIL Climate Change Policy 2020-2025 Climate Change Policy 2020-25 1 | P a g e Background Barrow Borough Council acknowledges the overwhelming evidence that human activities are having a profound effect on our climate. Globally…
… and surface water flooding connected to extreme weather patterns. The 2018 Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reviewed over 6,000 sources of evidence and found that, with a rise of 1.5°C, there would be risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth. A rise to 2°C would be even more catastrophic. It warned that we have only…
… 12 years left within which to take the serious action required to avert this crisis and avoid the worst impacts.i Following the recommendation of the Committee on Climate Change,ii the UK’s independent climate advisory body, the Climate Change Act 2008 was amended in June 2019. This commits the Government to reducing all UK greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 and to contribute…
… of Climate Change, through encouraging development to: realise the potential of the Borough for renewable and low carbon energy generation; achieve higher energy efficiency standards; increase the use of sustainable forms of transport; mitigate and adapt to flood risks; protect trees and woodland and enhance biodiversity.iv In July 2019, Barrow Borough Council declared a Climate Change Emergency. We…
… recognise the need to quickly decarbonise and increase the resilience of our communities to help minimise the impacts from unavoidable climate change. We are well placed to drive and influence emissions reductions in wider areas through the services we deliver, through our role as a social landlord, community leader and major employer, as well as through regulatory and strategic functions…