Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… ......................................................................................... 20 1. Homes, buildings and energy 21 2. Travel 24 3. Things we use 27 4. Ecology 30 5. Adapting to a changing climate 33 Enabling action ...................................................................................................... 36 Engagement, education and influence 36 Finance and decision-making 38 Green Economy 40 3 Strategy on a page Vision…
…. Over the past hundred years our activities, in particular the burning of fossil fuels, have caused the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to rise sharply. By the twenty-first century this had resulted in a 1°C rise in global average temperatures, bringing sea level rises that threaten low-lying areas, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Climate change is already…
… causing one disaster around the globe per week, according to the United Nations (UN) secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction1. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth comprehensive assessment of climate science in August 2021. This reveals that due to the ongoing inadequacy of global action temperatures are now likely to rise…
… on the climate emergency presents further opportunities for better quality of life: at present in the UK cold homes cost the NHS £1.4bn a year, and 40,000 die annually from air pollution-related diseases4. The environmental and health consequences of climate change disproportionately affect low-income countries and poorer people in high-income countries5. In H&F 32% of the reduced life expectancy…
…/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/spf/london-city- factsheets-3-of-3-the-results-v0.2.pdf 3 UK Committee on Climate Change, Heat and Preventable Deaths in the Health and Social care System, https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Outcomes-Heat-preventable-deaths- case-study.pdf 4 Ashden, Co-benefits of climate action 5 B Levy and J Patz (2015), ‘Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice…