Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… heat and 184–270 million additional people to water scarcity if global temperatures rise by 2°C, compared with a 1.5°C scenario (Page 4 and page 213: Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2018. Impacts of 1.5°C global warming on natural and human systems). The world is now clearly in the midst of a climate and ecological emergency and there is now a unanimous consensus from the scientific community…
… and international strategy. In July 2019, Manchester City Council declared a climate emergency (Manchester City Council Climate Emergency Declaration Text). This declaration recognises the need for the Council and the city as a whole to do more to reduce its carbon emissions and mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and demonstrated the Council’s commitment to be at the forefront…
… up with ambitious and real action. This action plan builds on a decade of experience in environmental action and aims to make a vital local contribution to meeting the challenges faced by the climate emergency. It sits alongside action plans from other members of the Manchester Climate Change Board who are collectively responsible for over 20% of the city’s emissions and have also committed…
… emergency? Since the Council declared a climate emergency on 10 July 2019, additional resources have been put in place alongside a number of changes to the way in which the Council operates. These include: ● Strengthened capacity within the Council to carry out this work and working with the Climate Change Agency to do the same. ● Through the work of the Zero Carbon Coordination Group…
… of emissions in the city (our direct emissions). It is therefore important that the Council works with and influence others to also play their full part in responding to the climate emergency. This will be vital in the wider city achieving its zero carbon ambitions. We will work with and exert our influence on as many organisations and individuals as possible in the way services are designed, delivered…