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Pembrokeshire County Council

… considerations for climate emergency declarations, targets and action plans (June 2019) has informed the Council’s approach. This recognises that while an emergency declaration deserves an appropriate response, a local authority cannot abandon everything else in order to tackle climate change as there are other legal duties and responsibilities to fulfil as well as locally identified priorities…

…; Finance; ICT; Civil Contingencies and Emergency Planning; and the Future Role of Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Major Infrastructure Changes 29 Appendix 4 Welsh Government Public-sector Outline Decarbonisation Route Map 39 Appendix 5 Glossary of Terms 44 Appendix 6 List of Abbreviations 46 Foreword Climate change is real, and it is happening all across the world and impacting…

… on local communities in Pembrokeshire. Sir David Attenborough in 2019 called climate change ‘our greatest threat in thousands of years’, adding, ‘while Earth has survived radical climactic changes and regenerated following mass extinctions, it’s not the destruction of Earth that we are facing, it’s the destruction of our familiar, natural world and our uniquely rich human culture.’ It is up to us all…

… to change this. While Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC) has previously invested in ‘green’ initiatives, this plan aims to bring together all council directorates and services in order to make it a local authority that takes climate change seriously and acts upon it. In May 2019 members of this Council voted to declare a climate emergency, and in July 2019 members voted to create an action plan…

… in our communities to be involved in this journey. We look forward to reducing emissions from our own activities and, more widely, to working with partners in order to bring about equal change. Cllr Joshua Beynon, Chair of the Net Zero Carbon 2030 Group Page 3 of 48 1. Background In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a Special Report…