… tensions and resultant upheaval1. For these reasons, Leicester City Council declared a Climate Emergency in February 2019. We support the commitment made by world leaders in the Paris Agreement, and signed up to by the UK Government, to keep global temperature rise within 2°C and seek to limit it to 1.5°C. The council is committed to playing a leading role in driving the city towards achieving…
… Project – committing to monitoring and publicly reporting our emissions. Leicester City Council was also one of the first UK local authorities to develop a plan for adapting to changes in the climate. However, the science is now telling us that we all need to go much, much further. Based on scientific estimates of the reductions in CO2 emissions needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goal, our…
… Ambition for a carbon-neutral city We believe that the city of Leicester must play its part in national and global efforts to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change. Scientific estimates for the speed and scale of global carbon reduction needed suggest that the City of Leicester needs to become carbon neutral by 2030 or sooner. The council will lead by example, working towards the city…
… the changes we think are needed. Background In 2016 world leaders from 195 countries, including the UK, signed the Paris Agreement on climate change. They committed to take steps to limit global temperature rise to well below 2oC and pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5oC. This is what scientists think is necessary to prevent the worst impacts of climate change on humanity and the natural world…
… Nations Paris Agreement for Leicester. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. https://carbonbudget.manchester.ac.uk/reports/E06000016/print/ https://carbonbudget.manchester.ac.uk/reports/E06000016/print/ Leicester’s Climate Emergency Strategy: April 2020 to March 2023 Page 21 of 57 Responses to Leicester’s Climate Emergency Conversation…