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Fife Council

… underpins Climate Fife, presenting: • a vision for where Fife Council wants to be, and the themes and programmes to show where actions are needed and how this will be supported; • where Fife is now, with a Baseline Emission Inventory for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment to show the known and expected risks from unavoidable climate change; and • action plans…

… decade Fife Council has worked proactively to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change, and Fife’s carbon footprint has fallen by over 55% (compared to 1990 emission levels). This activity has set a good foundation, but the latest climate science1 suggests that emissions need to be cut even deeper and faster than previously thought to avoid catastrophic impacts…

…://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/24/australia-bush-fires-have-nearly- doubled-countrys-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called world leaders to account in 2018 warning that climate change has become an emergency because of a collective failure to act. The warnings could not be more serious. Leading scientists now say that unless we change course drastically…

…, within the lifetime of people alive today we are heading for a world which can support significantly fewer people. Such is the climate and ecological emergency2. The younger generation is leading mass calls for real action, and we owe it to them, and to ourselves, to listen. We must actively cut our emissions each year until we achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Across Fife there has also…

…://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-atmosphere-reach-yet-another-high https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-atmosphere-reach-yet-another-high https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/24/australia-bush-fires-have-nearly-doubled-countrys-annual-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ https…