Including 7 closely related terms such as global warming, climate, and climate change.
… with rapid biodiversity and ecosystem loss, are combining to create a mass extinction event that threatens or severely impacts all life on our planet. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius was published in October 2018 and describes the enormous harm that a 2 degrees Celsius rise is likely to cause compared…
… with this Climate Action Plan and will be critical to ensuring success, such as: - Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan (including future Plan revisions) - The Devon Carbon Plan - Our emerging Recovery and Renewal Plan - Housing Strategy This Climate Change and Biodiversity Strategy represents the culmination of this work to date, there is no such thing as a ‘final’ version…
… Climate Change and Biodiversity Strategy West Devon Borough Council Climate Change and Biodiversity Strategy 2020 Page 1 of 29 (‘Warming Stripes – Global’ Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading) Contents (‘Warming Stripes – Global’ Ed…
… ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 4. How West Devon Borough Council will be changing and what we will be doing directly? ....................................... 9 PART TWO ................................................................................................................................................................. 10 5. West Devon Borough Council Climate Change and Biodiversity Action Plan Framework…
… .................................................................................................................. 23 Executive Summary We are facing an unprecedented challenge in dealing with Climate Change; anthropogenic emissions have resulted in runaway heating of our atmosphere, illustrated by the ‘warming stripes’. These emissions, coupled with rapid biodiversity and ecosystem loss, are combining to create a mass extinction event that threatens all life on our planet. In West Devon, people…