Including 11 closely related terms such as global warming, national climate change, and international climate change.
…. 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…