Including the closely related terms councils, council, and council.
… progress to date on the Climate Emergency Declaration and inform Policy and Resources Committee on the Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan (Appendix 1). RECOMMENDATION To endorse the Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan. REASON FOR RECOMMENDATION To aid delivery of the Council’s Climate Emergency Declaration. Introduction 1. Policy and Resources Committee will recall…
… that in July last year, PBC declared a Climate Emergency, joining over 200 other councils in committing to take local action on climate change: ‘Pendle Borough Council recognises that the world is in the midst of a climate and environmental emergency and that action is required at all levels of Government – local, national and international – in order to protect our planet for future generations…
… of life in all its forms and for human society as we know it. This Council notes – (1) on 8th October, 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre- industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emissions; (2) the report warned that the risk of catastrophic climate change including extreme heat…
…, drought, flooding and climate-related poverty would significantly increase unless global warming could be kept to a maximum of 1.5°C. Council (11.07.2019) 9 2 (3) the report authors found that global warming was likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate and say that urgent and unprecedented action was required to meet the target…
…. Council further notes that many Councils throughout the United Kingdom were declaring a climate emergency and resolving to take action to help to tackle this existential crisis. It therefore resolves: (1) To declare a climate emergency in the Borough of Pendle. (2) To set up an all-party member and officer working group to research what actions other Councils were taking; to take evidence…