Including 19 closely related terms such as emissions reduction, gas emissions, and reduction.
… Greenhouse gas emissions from the Council’s operations ........................................................... 33 9 Emission reduction targets ........................................................................................................... 35 9.1 A district-wide target ............................................................................................................ 35 9.1.1…
… carbon reductions in the district; o set direction and identify priority action areas. The timeframe of this strategy is 2020-2030, reflecting the importance of the crucial ‘Decade to Make a Difference’ – the ten years in which the world must see annual greenhouse gas emissions stop rising, plateau, and start falling steeply, if we are to have a chance of limiting global climate breakdown…
…, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C and increase further with 2°C. The UK has consistently been a global leader in enshrining carbon reduction commitments in law, and the Climate Change Act 2008 now commits the country to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050. The UK has submitted its national…
… the present national goal of 2050. Determine and promote a stretching district-wide emissions reduction target and pathway Most Local Authorities that have declared a climate emergency have also adopted area-wide reduction targets, often more ambitious than the UK’s current legally binding target of net zero territorial greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Many have not made clear how such a target…
… worried. The Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated that people pull together in an emergency, and that change can happen very fast when it has to. Nobody wanted the global emissions reduction that accompanied the Covid-19 lockdown to happen for that reason. Nonetheless the lockdown reduced noise and emissions, improved air quality and reinforced our appreciation of our beautiful Cotswold…