… Climate Emergency Action Plan GATESHEAD COUNCIL’S ROADMAP FOR CHANGE INTRODUCTION The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed in 2016 by all UN member states and was a major international step forward in action against climate change, committing countries to: • Limiting global temperature increase to 2˚C this century…
…, and aiming for 1.5˚C. • See global emissions peak and decline as soon as possible so that net zero emissions are achieved as close to 2050 as possible. The UK was the first member state to commit to legally binding targets to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 and, in May 2019, the UK committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. In the years after the signing of the Paris Agreement…