… of these is the 2016 Paris Agreement, which formally recognised the importance of the 1.5°C target. The next meeting of these nations will be COP26, taking place in Glasgow November 2021. We expect to see renewed global commitments coming out of COP26 that will influence our borough’s approach. What does Climate Change mean for Southwark? Climate change is already affecting our country and borough…
… the prospect of meeting the commitments set out in the Paris Agreement, it is essential that policies in response to the economic crisis avoid locking nations into carbon intensive pathways, and instead steer economies towards a resilient green recovery. In 2020, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) called for the UK government to use the economic recovery to accelerate the shift towards a low-carbon…