Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… together to address the Climate Emergency. Since the draft Action Plan was launched a year ago, we have not stopped action on delivering carbon reduction projects. In the last year we have started our School Streets Programme, worked with local businesses on e-cargo bikes, and started the Homes for Haringey retrofit programmes. We are delivering policy documents such as the New Local Plan…
… is now in a Climate Change Crisis and dramatic action is required. In March 2019, Haringey Council declared a Climate Emergency. In doing so, the Council committed to developing an action plan to decarbonise the borough by the earliest date that was both ambitious but achievable. The foundation work was done with ARUP when the Council first committed to becoming a net zero-carbon borough…
…, in the Borough Plan (2019- 2024). ARUP provided science-based analysis that informed the actions that could be delivered and to what timeframe. Based on the Climate Emergency declaration, Haringey Council revisited this initial action plan and agreed to bring forward both the timeline and scale of actions, aiming to be net zero carbon by 2041. This document sets out the actions as to how we can…
… borough by 2050. The Council had worked with Arup to set out a road map to 2050 and, after the Council declared a climate emergency in March 2019, it followed up with a Climate Emergency Report bringing the 2050 target forward to the earliest possible date, which we now believe to be 2041. As every tonne of carbon is vital to be reduced, and in the context of an emergency, we need to deliver…
… many of the actions urgently. Therefore, rather than accepting a linear decrease in carbon emissions, we have chosen to accelerate actions in response to the climate emergency. For this reason, the Haringey Climate Change Action Plan proposes a steeper rate of decrease in areas that the Council has greater control and powers to achieve this. This is shown through actions such as the Council’s…