Including the closely related terms emergencies, and climate emergency.
… ...........................................................4 The Paris Agreement ..........................................5 UK commitment ....................................................6 Key messages .......................................................7 Staffordshire Moorlands - Declaring a climate emergency .....................8 Staffordshire Moorlands - Current emissions profile ...................................9 Carbon budget…
… INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Following the declaration of a climate emergency in 2019 the Council began work on the development of a plan of action to achieve its stated goal of achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. It was intended that the plan should also address how to enable the whole District to achieve that same goal, with the ambition of developing a full detailed plan of action…
… to support local authorities in delivering Net Zero • Flexibility: Local operational flexibility around how local areas address climate change • Facilitation: coherent policy and powers for the facilitation of delivery The report notes that over 300 local authorities have declared Climate Emergencies and a third have developed strategies and action plans to deliver ambitious targets by 2030…
… when making decisions and reviewing Council policies and strategies. STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS - DECLARING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS – DECLARING A CLIMATE EMERGENCY On 10th July 2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency as follows: That this Council declare a Climate Emergency as many councils have already done all over the UK…
… and downstream emissions. Currently the Council does not have data on its Scope 3 related greenhouse gas emissions. STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS DISTRICT COUNCIL CO2E EMISSIONS 2019/20 (METRIC TONNES CO2E) 13 INITIAL ACTIVITY INITIAL ACTIVITY Since the declaration of a climate emergency a number of ‘enabling’ actions have already taken place: TRAINING: (1) Four climate science lectures delivered…