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Fife Council

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…. The ambition of international climate change commitments needs to be increased, and rapidly translated into action. Cllr. Ross J Vettraino OBE Convener - Environment and Protective Services Committee 1 IPCC, 2018: Summary for Policymakers. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas…

… it published its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, concluding that there is less than 12 years to act to avoid catastrophe. The report describes the enormous harm that global warming of 2°C over preindustrial temperatures is likely to cause compared to a 1.5°C rise, and how rises above 2°C will cause the deaths of billions. The IPCC highlighted that climate change has become an emergency…

… because of a collective failure to act. Despite nearly three decades of climate change negotiations and international commitments such as the Kyoto Protocol, greenhouse gases continue to increase by 1.5% per year. In May 2019, The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published a landmark report (Net Zero: The UK’s contribution to global warming) which recommend that a 100% reduction in greenhouse…

… gas emissions (GHG) should be legislated by the UK Government “as soon as possible”. The report states that this net-zero target could be achieved at the same cost that is currently put against achieving the current Climate Change Act, which is between 1-2% of GDP in 2050. Responding to the climate emergency will require collective action, in every community around the world on an enormous…

… underpins Climate Fife, presenting: • a vision for where Fife Council wants to be, and the themes and programmes to show where actions are needed and how this will be supported; • where Fife is now, with a Baseline Emission Inventory for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment to show the known and expected risks from unavoidable climate change; and • action plans…

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