Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… 30 8. Measuring and Reporting Progress 31 9. Conclusions 33 10. Achievements 34 11. Glossary 35 Contents STRATEGY 2020-30 3 The challenge we all face with regard to climate change is recognised across the globe. There is an increasing need for action if we are to respond to the danger this poses to our people, our wildlife and our environment. Locally…
… aspiration. A comment was made at the recent conference that we all need to consider our own priorities and behaviours if we are to rise to the challenge that climate change presents to us all. The Council wants to do precisely this through the publication of this strategy, which we hope will act as a catalyst to residents, businesses and interested groups. This Council, over successive…
… by us alone. Throughout the lifespan of the strategy we will review progress annually to ensure the direction we have chosen is still appropriate. STRATEGY 2020-30 7 3. Context The Paris Agreement, which was signed on 12th December 2015, was the first time that the overwhelming majority of national governments acknowledged that climate change was a tangible, severe and, importantly…
… not experienced for at least the last 800,000 years. Consequently, the global average temperatures continue to rise. Indeed 2000 – 2009 was the warmest decade for over 150 years whilst 2010-2019 was the second warmest. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 produced a very comprehensive and detailed scientific assessment of past, present and future climate change. As a result…
… of this work, it was recognised that an average global temperature rise of no more than 2°C is required to avert the worst potential consequences of climate change. The Paris Agreement formalised this recognition and has as its central aim to keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further…