Including 16 closely related terms such as global warming, changing, and climate change.
… these impacts. We need to act now to protect our natural environment and biodiversity for future generations. The solutions to tackling climate change will also reduce biodiversity loss; indeed nature can help us to offset carbon emissions and help us to solve the climate crisis. Global warming Increased levels of ‘greenhouse gases’ building up in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, nitrous…
…: Climate Adaptation: Climate Ready Buildings Climate Change Mitigation means the actions we can all take to reduce our carbon emissions, which will help to reduce global warming and the serious effects this will have on the environment, society and the economy. Climate Change Adaptation is how our communities can adapt to extreme weather events and a climate that is already changing…
… Legislation Scotland has world-leading climate change legislation, with ambitious targets to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019: Scotland now has the most stringent statutory climate change targets in the world. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 20193 received Royal Assent…
… Emergency and Reducing Global Warming. 18 3.2 UK Climate Change Policy………………………………………………………………………………………….. 18 3.3 National Policy Context: Scotland’s World-leading Climate Change Legislation…………. 18 3.4 The Local Policy Context: addressing Climate Change in East Lothian………………………… 23 4. Context: East Lothian……………………………………………………………………………. 25 4.1 Location, Landscape and Land Use Context…
… changing climate………………………………………………………………………………………. 34 8 6.2 Future climate impacts in East Lothian………………………………………………………………………. 35 6.3 East Lothian’s Climate Risks and Impacts…………………………………………………………………… 36 6.4 Key Challenges of a Changing Climate in East Lothian:………………………………………………. 36 6.5 What does Climate Change Adaptation involve…