Including 4 closely related terms such as climate change, climate change, and climate.
… to drive forward Sunderland’s ambitions and commitment to tackling climate change. This Framework Our approach to reducing carbon emissions cannot be linear. We need to learn, identify our priorities and projects, engage, act and monitor to ensure we are reducing our carbon footprint and making progress towards our target and revise our approach as necessary. This is why we are doing things…
… significant carbon savings to take place by purchasing goods with lower carbon footprints and altering our whole approach to consumption. Climate Resilience and Adaptation Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events. Local residents and businesses will increasingly be at risk from flooding, and those identified to be living in the most vulnerable parts of the city…
… 41 Strategic Priority 7: Reduce consumption and waste 43 Get involved 46 Sunderland Low Carbon Framework December 2020 Page 1 Foreword Climate change remains the challenge of our generation. The World (and the UK) is heating up. Governments from all around the World (including the UK) acknowledge…
… this and that urgent change is required. The UK Committee on Climate Change states that the ten warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred since 1990. The likelihood of experiencing a summer heatwave comparable to that experienced in 20181 in any particular year is now 10–20%, double the likelihood of a few decades ago. Sea levels are rising, and rainfall patterns are changing. The impacts…
… of climate change are accelerating, and public concern about climate change is increasing as our level of understanding increases (July 2019).2 The 2018 UN (IPCC) report sets out that an average global rise in temperature of 1.5°C above pre-industrial times would be an unacceptable risk. In truth, there is no safe level of global warming, and we have already seen a rise of 1°C, with each decade…