Including the closely related term climate emergency.
…. Background 3.1 The City of Edinburgh Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019 and committed to work towards a net zero emissions target by 2030 for the whole city. In doing so, the Council recognises its leadership role in engaging with city partners on the climate agenda and is at the forefront of city leadership on climate change, having set an area-wide target for the city, in addition…
… or resources to reduce city’s emissions to net zero by 2030 acting alone. Thus, the Council is engaging with city partners to bring forward a city-wide 2030 Sustainability Strategy 1 https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s26225/Item%204.1%20-%20Minute%20of%2025%20August%202020.pdf 2 So you’ve declared a Climate Emergency, what next? APSE publication https…
…://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s26225/Item%204.1%20-%20Minute%20of%2025%20August%202020.pdf https://www.apse.org.uk/apse/index.cfm/news/articles/2020/so-youe28099ve-declared-a-climate-emergency-what-next/ 3 for consultation in late spring/early summer and publication in autumn. The Council will also work with city partners to develop an appropriate performance and reporting framework…
… and will help avoid confusion between targets and scopes and focus strategic activity and reporting towards the more challenging target of achieving net zero by 2030. Net-zero target – scope 4.6 The Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019 and committed to work towards a net zero emissions target by 2030 for the whole city. A comprehensive boundary has been defined for this new target…