…? ........................................................................... 113 Greenhouse gases ................................................................................................................... 113 Climate change impacts ............................................................................................................ 114 The United Nations Paris Agreement…
… ........................................................................................ 115 Implications of the United Nations Paris Agreement for the Isle of Wight .................................. 116 Appendix II: The Isle of Wight’s climate ......................................................................... 117 Appendix III: Motion to Full Council ............................................................................... 119 Appendix IV: Related research…
…), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4) and ozone (O3). IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Mitigation In climate change terms, mitigation refers to human interventions to reduce emissions. Net zero emissions When anthropogenic CO2e emissions are balanced globally by anthropogenic CO2e removals over a specified period. Also referred to as carbon neutrality. Paris Agreement…
… of writing, the UK was in its third carbon budget period and has set out up to its sixth carbon budget in line with the Paris Agreement. The Climate Change Committee has found that although the UK is currently on track to meet its third budget, it is not on track to meet either its fourth or fifth budgets, which will run from 2023-2027 and 2028-2032 respectively5. However, the UK…
… hard-to-decarbonise emissions can be compensated using certified greenhouse gas removal.”8 The Paris Agreement, adopted by 196 countries in 2015, is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2ºc, and ideally below 1.5ºc, by asking countries to begin decreasing the total amount of emissions they produce annually as soon…