Including 14 closely related terms such as global warming, new climate change, and global climate change.
…) in December 2015. It sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It also aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts. In November 2021, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26…
…. This is produced by burning fossil fuels, industrial production and land use change. A number of other GHGs are also driving global climate change: methane, nitrous oxide, and trace gases such as the group of ‘F-gases’. These have contributed a significant amount of warming to date. The term “carbon” can be confusing as it is often used as shorthand to refer interchangeably to either CO2 or GHGs…
…://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/IF11821.html https://ecometrica.com/assets/GHGs-CO2-CO2e-and-Carbon-What-Do-These-Mean-v2.1.pdf https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors The Paris Agreement was the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate change agreement, adopted at the Paris climate conference (COP21…
…, the UK Government enshrined in law a new climate change target to reduce GHG emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. This takes the UK more than three-quarters of the way to reaching net zero by 20505. The UK Government published a Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution6 (November 2020) and an Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy7 (March 2021) that sets out its vision…
… support and grant funding for Swindon. SMEs. A new climate change section will be created on the SBC website. F2 Host a Swindon community event as part of the Government’s UK-wide COP26 Zero Carbon Tour September 2021 Sam Mowbray (Phil Avery) This event forms part of a national UK Government initiative to sign up 100,000+ businesses to the UN Race to Zero Campaign in the build up…