Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Climate Fife: Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan 2020-2030 a Fife Council Company I am pleased to present Climate Fife, Fife’s new Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan. Climate Fife has been created to help us to respond to what is arguably the greatest challenge of our time - the climate emergency. Over the last…
… been progress, such as improvements to our homes and creating new district heating like Glenrothes Energy. The technologies and policy knowledge needed to avoid this catastrophe already exist, but transformations must begin now. We now need to mobilise to accelerate the pace and ambition of our response to the climate crisis. Climate Fife is Fife’s response to the climate emergency. Fife…
… Council is aware of how challenging it will be to achieve the actions and targets within this plan; it would be an inadequate response to the climate emergency if they were not so. Whilst the future may be radically different to the present and perhaps very different to how Fifers envisage the future today, if we act decisively and proactively now our actions could help to tackle not just climate…
… gas emissions (GHG) should be legislated by the UK Government “as soon as possible”. The report states that this net-zero target could be achieved at the same cost that is currently put against achieving the current Climate Change Act, which is between 1-2% of GDP in 2050. Responding to the climate emergency will require collective action, in every community around the world on an enormous…
… live in the next decade if we are to give ourselves and our children hope for the future. Business as usual must change. What value short term profit if we lose a functioning environment? There are, after all, no pensions or jobs on a dead planet. The climate emergency The UN’s assessment of the situation is blunt: “Countries collectively failed to stop the growth in global greenhouse gas…