Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… ........................................................................................................................................ 21 3 of 22 This document was classified as: OFFICIAL A CARBON NEUTRAL DARLINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY Introduction 1. The 2018 report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that without substantial efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade we are likely to face severe…
…, widespread, and irreversible impacts on societies. Human activity has already led to 1°C of global warming from pre-industrial levels, which is resulting in damaging impacts on lives, infrastructure and ecosystems that are apparent today. As a result, we need to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. 2. The predicted impacts of climate change in Darlington include more frequent and intense…
… on habitats from rising temperature and weather events and from invasive species. Today, we are already seeing some of these changes. 3. This strategy focuses on our plans to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. 4. In July 2019, Members acknowledged the threat of climate change and passed a motion committing the Council to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. As part of this commitment…
… we have developed this strategy to set out the baseline of our own carbon emissions and identify the key actions and intervention measures required to meet this commitment. We also set out what measures we will take to deal with unavoidable impacts of climate change. 5. The strategy is based on previous work to reduce our emissions. A carbon management plan was produced in 2010, which…
… committed the Council to reducing its emissions by 25% by 2013/14 from 2008/9 levels. A climate change action plan was also produced. 6. Since 2010 we have upgraded lighting in council buildings and streetlights and installed solar panels on the Town Hall roof. We also installed combined heat and power for the Dolphin Leisure Centre. 7. Since then the size of the corporate estate has increased…