… Financial Strategy.1 1.2 Vision Slough Borough Council aspires to have a carbon neutral and energy efficient corporate estate, fleet and workforce. The Council will play a responsible leadership role to ensure that Slough has a sustainable future, to contribute to the United Kingdom’s Net Zero target under the Climate Change Act, and to meet with the future economic challenges of local…
… be a range of extremely severe and potentially irreversible impacts. Source: Climate Change Explained DECC website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/climate- change-explained#climate-change-now 2.4 National Policy Drivers 2.4.1 The Climate Change Act and Net Zero The UK Government considers that global warming must be limited to no more than a 2°C temperature rise above…
… preindustrial times to avoid dangerous impacts. The UK passed the Climate Change Act 2008 making it the world’s first long term legally binding framework, which introduced the target of reducing UK emissions by 80% by 2050, compared to a 1990 baseline. On 27 June 2019, the UK furthered its commitment to decarbonisation by extending the target to Net Zero making the UK the first…
… major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050.6 Net Zero is widely considered a synonym for Carbon Neutrality, which is defined by the World Resources Institute as “annual zero net anthropogenic (human caused or influenced) CO2 emissions by a certain date”.7 2.4.2 Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement sets out a global framework…
… to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It also aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts. 6UK Passes Net Zero by 2050 law: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-becomes-first-major-economy-to-pass-net-zero-emissions-law 7WRI, Glossary of terms: https…