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Fife Council

…, which declared that climate change had become an emergency because of a collective failure to act. The IPCC warned that failing to limit global warming to a 1.5°C increase in global average temperatures over the preindustrial period would trigger runaway climate change and have catastrophic impacts on health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth…

… partners to revise the Plan4Fife to include a clearer commitment and actions to address climate change; 6. To assist communities to be more resilient to the impacts of global warming and climate change and work with partners and communities across Fife in pursuit of these targets.” National legislation Fife Council is committed to playing its part in achieving national climate change targets…

… 17 https://www.gov.scot/news/climate-change-action-1/ 18 https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ 19 https://www.theccc.org.uk/2019/05/02/phase-out-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-2050-to-end-uk-contribution-to-global-warming/ 20 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/15/enacted 19 to legislate to support the aims of the Paris Agreement which sets the standard for the international response…

… Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R…

… the atmosphere and storing it in long term carbon sinks so that it will not contribute to global warming in the medium term. The latest science suggests that it may not actually be possible to meet Fife Council’s climate change targets without massive carbon sequestration efforts because Fife has simply been too slow to cut emissions. This workstream will involve flue gas capture, reforestation projects…