Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Climate Emergency Action Plan GATESHEAD COUNCIL’S ROADMAP FOR CHANGE INTRODUCTION The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed in 2016 by all UN member states and was a major international step forward in action against climate change, committing countries to: • Limiting global temperature increase to 2˚C this century…
… to 2˚C, and 55% lower to limit the increase to 1.5˚C. GATESHEAD’S RESPONSE To play our part in responding to the global challenge of climate change, Gateshead Council declared a Climate Emergency at its Council meeting on 23 May 2019. In doing so, the council committed to: • Make the Council’s activities carbon neutral by 2030 • Achieve 100% clean energy across the Council’s full…
…. The environmental audit is the most in-depth assessment of the council’s environmental and carbon footprint ever carried out. It has helped us understand what we are doing well, and what improvements we could make. ACTION PLAN We have used the audit’s findings to develop an action plan to reduce the Council’s carbon footprint and deliver on the commitments made in our Climate Emergency declaration…
… able to carry out while preparing the action plan. However, we were able to hold a stakeholder workshop on 24 February 2020 which began a dialogue with our communities and created networks between individuals, groups and organisations. From January to May 2020 we invited responses to an online survey of residents’ views on the climate emergency. A summary of responses to the survey…
… to their carbon and environmental footprint. To that end, Gateshead Council will ensure that the Climate Emergency is considered in all relevant council policies and strategies, and in decisions regarding council investments and assets. Our action plan is a critical step in our journey to a zero-carbon future, but it represents only one part of a much larger transition that will be made…