… Council Climate Emergency Strategy 2020-2030 5 Figure 1: Paris agreement likely overshoot (Climateactiontracker.org) ............................................... 12 Figure 2: 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment report (UK government) .......................................... 14 Figure 3 Projected changes in temperature, Met Office UK Climate Impacts project ......................... 14…
…, the international community achieved a breakthrough by reaching the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. The Agreement stated the aim to “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well- below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C”. Global heating is already over 1°C…
… emissions reduction commitment to the UNFCCC, alongside all other participating countries. The problem is that, taken together, these individual national commitments do not come close to the level of emissions reduction required to achieve the limits set in the Paris Agreement (Figure 1). If emissions are reduced in line with stated commitments (and that itself must be questioned), it would…
…- 10_BriefingCOP25_WarmingProjectionsGlobalUpdate_Dec2019.pdf Cotswold District Council Climate Emergency Strategy 2020-2030 12 Figure 1: Paris agreement likely overshoot (Climateactiontracker.org) 4.2 UK progress on tackling climate change The Committee on Climate Change 2020 annual report to Parliament4 makes clear that, whilst the UK has met its carbon budgets in previous years, it is not on track to meet future ones…