Including the closely related terms emergencies, and climate emergency.
… - Introduction and Policy Context .......................................................................................... 8 2.1 Background to Climate Change – Legislation............................................................................... 8 2.2 Background to Climate Emergency Declaration .......................................................................... 9 2.3 Our Current Council…
… the beauty of landscapes, connecting people with the environment to improve health and wellbeing, increasing resource efficiency, reducing pollution and waste, securing clean, productive and biologically diverse seas and oceans and protecting and improving the global environment. 2.2 Background to Climate Emergency Declaration 2.2.1 Birmingham City Council declared climate emergency…
… to Zero Team in order to establish a senior lead officer for the programme and support to embed Route to Zero across the City Council as a whole. 3.4 In June 2019 the UK became the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Beyond this, individual local authorities have declared their own climate emergencies. As the authorities…
…. Both crises require ‘mass’ change: the efforts of individuals do little to mitigate the risk unless accompanied by efforts from the majority. 4. In both cases, authorities have acknowledged the urgency of acting. A climate emergency was declared on the 11th of June 2019 and on the 11th of March 2020 covid-19 was characterised as a pandemic. 4.4 Given the number of similarities that can…