Including the closely related term paris climate.
… of global warming. At current rate, we will reach 1.5ºC between 2030 and 2052. Past emissions alone do not commit the world to 1.5ºC. Under the Paris Climate Agreement, the UK is committed to re- stricting the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2°C and preferably below 1.5°C. For this to be achieved, cutting carbon emissions over the next decade will be crucial. Currently…
…, the world is on track to overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit before 2050. The Climate Change Act 2008 commits the UK to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, and to five-yearly carbon budgets between now and then. The consequences of global temperature rising above 1.5°C are so severe that preventing this from happening must be a shared global priority. NEWCASTLE’S COMMITMENT…
… TO CLIMATE ACTION WHY WAS A CLIMATE EMERGENCY DECLARED? THE NATIONAL PICTURE The overall objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is ‘stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference in the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement was the first comprehensive global agreement…
… to tackle climate change. The Paris Agreement contains a long-term temperature goal (the level of warming that the world is aiming for) in which Parties (countries) commit to ‘holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would…
… significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change’. THE PARIS AGREEMENT Following the IPCC report, the Government commissioned the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to assess what this means for current UK targets, policy and obligations. Published in May 2019, the CCC report concluded that the UK can reduce emissions to Net Zero by 2050, and that this could cost less than 2…