Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Our Newcastle Net Zero Newcastle - 2030 Action Plan Our Future September 2020 CONTENTS PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR INTRODUCTION DEVELOPING THE PLAN NET ZERO THEMES TIMELINE Foreword from the Leader What is this Document? What You Can Do To Help - Newcastle Net Zero Pledge Newcastle’s Climate Emergency Newcastle’s…
…, perspectives and backgrounds. This Action Plan is a continuation and enhancement of the Climate Emergency Advisory Report (link here) which was presented and approved at Newcastle City Council's Cabinet in March 2020 and the previous reports setting out detailed proposals for multiple low carbon interventions, that has been presented to Climate Change Committee (further information here…
…://www.best-ne.co.uk/ https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/netzero INTRODUCTION: Page 8 INTRODUCTION: Page 9 NEWCASTLE’S CLIMATE EMERGENCY On 3 April 2019, Newcastle City Council declared a Climate Emer- gency. The Climate Emergency declaration made the commitment to create a new Climate Change Strategy with the aim of achieving Net Zero status by 2030 and to establish a Climate Change…
… Con- vention (further information here). The Climate Emergency declaration: • Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ • Update the 2010 Newcastle Declaration on Climate Change by pledging to make Newcastle upon Tyne carbon neutral by 2030, taking into account both production and consumption emissions • Call on the Government to provide powers and resources to make the 2030 target possible • Work…
… TO CLIMATE ACTION WHY WAS A CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARED? THE NATIONAL PICTURE The overall objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is ‘stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference in the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement was the first comprehensive global agreement…