Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Climate Emergenacy Cabinet TENDRING CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN 2020 - 2023 bbbbbbb bbbbbbb TENDRING DISTRICT COUNCIL Page 3: Foreword Page 3: Introduction Page 4-5: Tendring District Council’s Motion Page 5-9: Our Current Position Page 10: Taking Action - The Climate Emergency Action Plan Page 10-13…
… and safeguard the planet for future generations. As a population we have collectively developed and benefitted from a way of living that involves the burning of fossil fuels that we now understand have a very detrimental impact on our environment. Last year, this Council along with many others made a Climate Emergency Declaration committing ourselves to a number of actions aimed at reducing our…
… growth. A rise to 2°C would be even more catastrophic. It warned that we have only 12 years left within which to take the serious action required to avert this crisis and avoid the worst impacts. 3 Figure 1 Committee on Climate Change Infographic on the impacts of different scenarios TENDRING DISTRICT COUNCIL’S MOTION On 6th August 2019 the Council declared a climate emergency and Full…
… councils across the UK have already passed “Climate Emergency” motions. It is therefore proposed that this Council: 1) Declares a Climate Emergency and instructs the Chief Executive to prepare an Action Plan for consideration by Cabinet and recommendation to the Full Council to form part of the Policy Framework, as soon as practicable with the aim of activities of the Council being carbon…
… the £150,000 allocated by the last Cabinet meeting to a Climate Emergency budget to enable specialist advice to be obtained to complete the essential research to establish the Council’s Carbon footprint to be carried out and to provide the capacity to enable a comprehensive and costed Action Plan to be prepared for agreement by full Council as set out above. 5) Notes that the Leader will form a Working…