…% of the world’s species are now at threat of extinction due to habitat loss and the effects of climate change. The Committee on Climate Change recently reported that there will have to be a quadrupling of low carbon electricity, major scale carbon capture and storage, and a radical change of land use to reach ‘carbon net zero’ by 2050. 8. There are a range of opinions on the pace required to meet…
… this emergency. 9. The UK Committee on Climate Change, along with the IPCC, both reference dates of 2050 to achieve carbon neutrality which the UK Government announced it would adopt on the 12 June 2019. Extinction Rebellion state that we should aim for carbon net zero by 2025. Southwark Climate emergency declaration 10. The council declared a climate emergency in March 2019 and vowed to “do all…