Including 4 closely related terms such as biodiversity, emergencies, and biodiversity emergency.
… recommendations. This was followed with the cross-party declaration of a Biodiversity and Climate Emergency in April 2019 and an aim of making the Borough carbon neutral by 2030. Latterly, national and international policy caught up with our local aspirations when in June 2019, the UK Government enshrined in law a reduction in the UK’s net emissions of greenhouse gases of 100% by 2050. Further, in May…
… and Biodiversity Emergency a cross-party councillor working group was established to identify priorities for action. We sought expert advice to determine how to make unprecedented reductions to our own carbon emissions, and to learn about the actions we must take to cut harmful emissions and stem then reverse the decline in biodiversity across the Borough. To help us we sought the views of residents…
… the challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. In April 2019 this Council approved a motion recognising global climate and biodiversity emergencies. It created the cross party Biodiversity and Climate Change Working Group cross to: • Consider a target date of 2030 for the whole of the Borough of Maidstone to be carbon neutral • Consider how the Council can strengthen local protection…
… Maidstone Borough Council recognised the climate emergency as a way of acknowledging the need for urgent and efective actions throughout the next decade to reduce emissions. The cumulative level of emissions is so important that a cut in emissions now is more valuable than the same cut later. It is vital to cut emissions now and not to delay just because the route for eliminating emissions…
… research, led by the Natural History Museum, documented the UK comes out bottom amongst the G7 leading economies in terms of how much biodiversity still survives, and that in the European context only Ireland and Malta come out worse, with the UK in the bottom 10% of all c Following the Council’s 2019 declaration of a Climate Change and Biodiversity Emergency a cross-party councillor working group…