Including the closely related term climate emergency.
… Delivery and Monitoring 23 Governance 23 Reviewing Progress 23 CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN - TAKING ACTION FOR A NET ZERO FUTURE I am delighted to introduce West Dunbartonshire’s new Climate Change Action Plan, which sets out the immediate and longer term actions the Council will need to take to respond to the climate emergency, both in relation to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions…
… and adapting to the impacts of climate change up to 2045. It is vital that we take action now and play our part in the global effort to reduce the impacts of Climate Change. In April 2019, the Scottish Government declared a climate emergency, highlighting that serious changes in our society are needed to address this most urgent of issues. Furthermore, the latest report from the Intergovernmental…
…. FOREWORD CONTEXT Councillor Iain McLaren, Convener of Infrastructure, Regeneration and Economic Development Vision In January 2021, the Council launched a new Climate Change Strategy in response to the global climate emergency, setting a long term target for West Dunbartonshire becoming net zero by 2045, following a similar trajectory to the national target set for Scotland as a whole…
…. This Climate Change Action Plan sets out the immediate and longer term actions the Council will take to respond to the climate emergency, both in relation to mitigating and adapting to climate change. This plan will implement the Council’s Climate Change Strategy (2021) through a series of high-level actions for the short, medium and long term, setting out the need for action and a high level…
… framework. The proposed local actions set out in this Action Plan seek to build on national and regional level actions to tackle the climate emergency. These actions have been developed by the Council’s Climate Change Action Group in consultation with each of the Council’s service areas and have been subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in accordance with the Environmental…