Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Policy Statement Responding to the Climate Emergency 2020 1 Introduction 1.1 The Council meeting on the 30th October 2019 agreed a motion to declare a climate emergency. It noted that the most recent State of the UK Climate 2017 report identified: We will be experiencing summers…
… authorities in declaring a climate emergency; 2) Create a member working group to propose an informed target for the Council’s carbon reduction by 2025 and to review it every five years thereafter, and to develop a “Carbon Action Plan” towards these goals, and that this working group should report back to the Council no later than March 2020; 3) Develop a strategy for RMBC to play a leadership role…
… in promoting community, public and business partnerships in reducing carbon emissions; 4) Mandate officers to lobby government for additional resources to support this strategy where these are required; 5) Pledge to produce, in January of each year, a Rotherham Climate Emergency Annual Report, detailing the Council’s progress against the Carbon Action Plan; 6) Pledge to ask our partner organisations…
… across Rotherham to support us by making clear commitments to dealing with this climatic crisis; 7) Require all officer reports from April 2020 to Cabinet and Full Council to contain impact assessments in relation to climate change.” 2 Climate Emergency Action – scope and underpinning principles 2.1 This report sets out the Council’s commitment to tackling the climate emergency. It provides…
… information about the work undertaken by the Member Working Group since 30th October 2019. The report also proposes ambitious and informed targets for the Council’s carbon reduction and the key action themes that will form the basis of the Council’s climate emergency response. 2.2 Any action will, in the first instance, focus on direct emissions from Council activities and emissions associated…