Including 10 closely related terms such as global warming, changing, and climate.
… mitigation and adaptation, identifying actions to reduce our carbon emissions in the future, but also what we need to do to adapt to climate change now. Climate Mitigation Climate Adaptation Image: Council of the Isles of Scilly The health impacts of our changing climate Climate change can have serious implications on our health and wellbeing. The physical impacts of climate change…
… zero carbon The emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane into the earth’s atmosphere is the major contributing factor to global warming and our changing climate. The Council’s continued use of fossil fuels continues to drive these carbon emissions up. However, since the publication of our Climate Change Action plan in 2011, the Council has taken significant…
… PowerPoint Presentation Climate Change Action Plan 2022 Image: Barefoot Photographer / Scilly Wildlife Trust Library Contents Foreword Executive summary Our key objectives What does climate change mean for the Isles of Scilly? Climate mitigation and adaptation The health impacts of climate change Our journey to net zero…
… to come. In March 2019, I was honoured to meet the children of Five Islands Academy on their Climate March to the Town Hall on St Marys. 150 local children hand delivered a petition to the Council calling for real action in the way we tackle climate change. At the time I told them we would take their concerns seriously as we believed the issue was hugely important, not just here on Scilly…
… energy efficient, the installation of electric vehicle charging points around the islands and more recently the Climate Adaptation Scilly Project. This new Action Plan will move the determination still further and place the Council as a leader by example in protecting the islands for future generations. This Climate Change Action Plan celebrates what we have already achieved since our last…