… challenge. The consequences of not acting are increasingly well understood and the climate movement is gaining momentum in communities, and at national and local levels of government across the world. The UN ‘Paris Agreement’ seeks to limit global average temperature rises to 1.5°C above the pre- industrial period as it has been warned that anything beyond 1.5°C would have catastrophic consequences…
… Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Page 11 Policy context 1.2 Climate emergency In 2015, an historic international agreement on climate change was reached. Known as the ‘Paris Agreement’ countries committed to: • Keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels • Pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5…
…. The methodology favoured by most responses in the public consultation, as well our own internal review, was the one developed by the Tyndall Centre. 3.5 The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is a well-respected partnership of four British Universities and one Chinese University to research climate change mitigation. Their approach is derived from the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement…