Including 6 closely related terms such as global warming, damaging climate change, and climate.
… in the LASER report at Appendix C. Emission reduction 1.22 The Council recognises the global biodiversity and climate emergency, and the need to act urgently to reduce carbon emissions to limit further global warming and associated environmental impacts. 1.23 The Council now needs to work towards rapidly reducing its footprint to achieve this target, building and accelerating…
… emissions as much as possible by 2030 will ensure we are restricting our contribution to damaging climate change. Early action will be critical to avoid falling behind target. 1.31 The importance of taking early action and meeting our ambition of being carbon neutral by 2030 is shown in figure 5 below. If we did nothing and maintained ‘BAU’ the Council would use its entire carbon allowance5…
… to avoid dangerous climate change within 7 years from 2020. 5 https://tyndall.ac.uk/news/tyndall-carbon-targeter-helps-local-authorities-respond-their-climate- emergency https://tyndall.ac.uk/news/tyndall-carbon-targeter-helps-local-authorities-respond-their-climate-emergency https://tyndall.ac.uk/news/tyndall-carbon-targeter-helps-local-authorities-respond…
…-year plan. 1.5 The Council also agreed to: “Take steps with partners to proactively include young people in the process, ensuring that they have a voice in shaping the future by setting up a Citizen’s Assembly as a way of also involving residents and businesses in the process, as Climate change will have implications for generations to come.” A separate report details the various…
… reductions already include an amount of offsetting and reduces our emissions by a minimum of 74 per cent. Slowing the reductions pathway down further does not meet the council’s ambition of meeting carbon neutral by 2030. The problems of climate change are known as well as some of the potential solutions. To support staying within a global temperature threshold of “well below 2°C” requires…