Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… projections (UKCP18) suggest that the UK climate will continue to warm over the rest of this century, and on average, will result in hotter and drier summers, warmer and wetter winters with more extreme weather events expected, though individual years may not conform to this pattern (Environment Agency, 2018). In response Peterborough City Council declared a ‘climate emergency’ on 24th July 2019…
… (Peterborough City Council, 2019a). In doing so the Council joined a global movement which worldwide has seen, to date, 1,863 jurisdictions in 33 countries declare a climate emergency, and within this 400 local authorities in the UK3. In making this declaration the Council committed to a wide range of comprehensive actions, including, in summary: Make the Council's activities and the city's net-zero…
…) 2 “The UK has seen its hottest July day ever as the temperature reached 38.1C in Cambridge. The new record outstripped the previous high for the month of 36.7C, set at Heathrow in July 2015.” (New Scientist, 2019) 3 Figures correct as of December 2019 (The Climate Emergency Declarations and Mobilisation, 2019) 4…
… that exist to address those issues, in respect of the climate emergency declaration. It is very difficult to quantify the emissions reduction that will occur as a result of this work and therefore no data has been included here. monthly basis. The Group have played a crucial role in the development of the Draft Citywide-CMAP and have held two in depth workshops to support the development…
… Council-CMAP-2021 Subject to securing sufficient funding the Council intends to undertake research to identify the potential opportunities. Until this research is undertaken there is no data available to indicate the potential savings. Mayor’s Car Transport As part of the Climate Emergency Declaration a commitment was made to consider options for changing the Mayor’s car to an electric…