… and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C.” In response, the IPPC published a Special Report. In May 2019 the UK Government declared an environment and climate emergency. The government also altered the Climate Change Act 2008 to amend the statutory target to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions from 80% to net-zero by 2050. South Derbyshire District Council…
… in the weather patterns globally and regionally. . Climate Emergency Research suggests that humanity must reach net-zero emissions by 2030 at the latest in order to have a reasonable chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C (IPPC 2018 report) Carbon Equivalent Equivalent CO2 (CO2e) is the concentration of CO2 that would cause the same level of radiative forcing as a given type and concentration…