Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… for Belfast 42 Next Steps for Belfast 44 Appendix 1: League Table of the Most Carbon-Effective Options for Belfast 46 Appendix 2: League Table of the Most Cost-Effective Options for Belfast 48 Place-Based Climate Action Network (PCAN) 50 Partnerships 51 2 3 A NET-ZERO CARBON ROADMAP FOR BELFAST PREFACE Background Belfast signed its climate emergency declaration in October of 2019, and is due…
… recovery programme. Policy Change and the Need to Deliver In June 2019, the UK Government passed legislation with a commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The Northern Ireland Assembly declared a climate emergency in February of 2020. At the local level, 2019 saw a wave of local climate emergency declarations, with many local authorities setting their own, usually more ambitious…
… targets to reach net-zero emissions. By February 2020, 68% of UK district, county, unitary and metropolitan councils including 3 authorities in Northern Ireland had declared a climate emergency*. It is clear though that declaring a climate emergency is just the first step – declarations need to be turned into action plans, and these need to be delivered before we can claim to have responded…
… (IPCC) suggests that we will have used up the global carbon budget that gives us a good chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C degrees within a decade. This science underpins calls for the declaration of a climate emergency. • Dividing the global carbon budget up by population gives Belfast a total carbon budget of 14 million tonnes from 2020. Based only on the fuel and electricity used within…
… means that we will have used up our global carbon budget within a decade. It is this realisation – and the ever accumulating science on the scale of the impacts of climate change – that led to calls for organisations and areas to declare a climate emergency and to develop and implement plans to rapidly reduce carbon emissions. 13 14 15 A NET-ZERO CARBON ROADMAP FOR BELFAST OUR…