… 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…
… 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…
… pathway (3.8% reduction per year)14 2015 2050204520402035203020252020 M t C O2 1.2 0.2 0.4 0.6 1.4 0.8 1.0 0 CO2 descent pathway to meet local ‘fair share’ budget based on the Paris Agreement (-13.4%) CO2 descent pathway based on past local annual average reductions (-3.8%) To stand a chance of staying within our emissions ‘budget’ and getting to net zero climate pollution and we…
… CLIMATE EMERGENCY 10 OBJECTIVES 15. There are just over 100,000 owner-occupied and privately rented homes in Wirral below EPC Band C GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR WIRRAL IN A NUTSHELL... COOL 2 A STRATEGY FOR WIRRAL IN THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY 11 FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE NET ZERO CLIMATE POLLUTION CLIMATE RESILIENT LEANER USE OF ENERGY CLEAN ENERGY CLEAN TRAVEL WISER…
…, both the need to reach net zero emissions rapidly and the need to adapt to unavoidable change in climate and sea levels. Public Consultation on the new plan under Regulation 18 of the Local Plan Regulations 2012 is due to begin in 2020. The Cool Wirral Partnership will be a consultee at this stage. The local domestic recycling collection is based on a system that was developed approximately…