Including 5 closely related terms such as global warming, climate, and climate change.
…. In October 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a speci al report on ‘Global Warming of 1.5°C’, following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2015. The report reviewed the differences in impacts and benefits between limiting the average rise in global temperature to 1.5°C versus 2°C. It found that a 2°C rise is significantly more disruptive, harmful, damaging…
… leadership now rests on continuing the reduction in power sector emissions. However, in June 2019, following updated advice from the CCC in its report ‘Net Zero – The UK’s contribution to stopping global warming’, the Government amended the Climate Change Act from an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050 against a 1990 baseline , to a target Net Zero Carbon target. More recently the Court…
… .................................................................................................................. 49 9 SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Tewkesbury Borough Council (TBC) has declared a Climate Change Emergency and aspires to achieving Carbon Neutrality in its own offices by 2030. TBC commissioned this study to produce a current status baseline and first stage Action Plan relating to the council’s own buildings and business-related transport, in response to the emergency…
… of international and national studies, strategies and policies, provide the background to the need for emitters to consider reducing their contribution t o climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At an international level, on the 12th December 2015 the Paris agreement was reached coming into force in November the following year. The aim was to combat climate change…
… and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius…