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… to achieve higher annual savings thereafter. THE STRATEGY SETS WIRRAL ON THE PATH TO ACHIEVE TWO MAIN GOALS: - To stay within a local emissions ‘budget’ of 7.7 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2 between 2020-2100 and to reach ‘net zero’ pollution as early as possible before 2041 (Box 1.1). - To ensure a climate resilient Wirral adapted to cope with existing change and further unavoidable disruption…

… - An increasing use of non-fossil fuel alternatives to natural gas injected into the gas grid including bio-methane the potential for hydrogen Objective: A complete transition to fossil fuel free local travel by around 2030 Compared to the power sector, emissions from transport remain stubbornly high. Improvements in vehicle emission standards have not delivered expected benefits in ‘real…

… CLIMATE EMERGENCY 6 9. UNEP (2018) Emissions Gap Report of 2018 10. IPCC (2018) Special Repot on Global Warming of 1.5ºC 11. Wirral Intelligence Service (2019) CO2 emissions in Wirral, 2015-16 COOL 2 A STRATEGY FOR WIRRAL IN THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY 7 Figure 1: Wirral CO2 emissions 2005-16 Figure 2: Source of CO2 in Wirral - 2016 INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE 31% DOMESTIC 43…

… recent version of the tool with updated emissions data indicates the need to reach near zero by 2042. 13. Ideally, we need to reduce pollution by more than 13.4% early on. Doing this would help stretch our remaining budget over a longer period. If we do not manage to achieve at least a 13.4% reduction in the first years from 2020 we risk using up our remaining budget sooner so would need…

… this century (Box 1.2). To meet our fair share of the global pollution reduction burden means cutting CO2 by an at least an average of 13.4% each year compared to the present reduction of around 3.8 % per year (Figure 3)12,13, i.e. around three and a half times more. Box 1.1: STAYING WITHIN WIRRAL’S EMISSIONS BUDGET AND REACHING ‘NET ZERO’ POLLUTION SOON There is only so much more greenhouse gas…