Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… PATHWAY TO NET ZERO BY 2040 OUR CLIMATE RESPONSE PLAN NOVEMBER 2021 3 2 As Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport for St Helens Borough Council I am delighted to introduce our climate response plan. Back in 2019 the Council declared a climate emergency in recognition of the existential threat posed by rising temperatures…
… across the world. Ambitiously, we committed to achieve net zero by 2040. Despite the devastating impacts of COVID19 over the past 18 months our resolve and determination to achieve net zero by 2040 is unwavering. Our response to the climate emergency needs to be at the heart of all six of the Council priorities as laid out in ‘Our Borough Strategy’ The impact and emergence from the pandemic…
… organisations who we know are equally committed to this hugely important agenda. It has been an encouraging and heartening experience to reflect on the progress that the Council has made since declaring a climate emergency. We must however do so much more and the forward looking sections of this document is where our focus now needs to be. There are many imminent planned activities designed to ramp…
… CO2 per year Return flight from Manchester to New York will emit 1.59 tonnes of CO2 per passenger Rail journey from St Helens to London will emit 31.8 kg CO2 per passenger 98 Our vision is a simple yet challenging one. In line with our climate emergency declaration ‘Together we will make St Helens a net zero borough by 2040’. Achieving this vision will require The Council…
… come together to collectively act and tackle the climate emergency facing us all. Over the next 12 months we will develop a more detailed action plan to show the specific steps that we will take to edge closer to the net zero vision. This will contain a number of SMART measures to promote accountability and to allow our progress to be closely monitored. The Action Plan will need…