… are taking to tackle Climate Change will have wider benefits - these ‘co-benefits’ include improved health, improved air quality, reduced fuel poverty and new economic development opportunities. Introduction Background The Paris Agreement UK commitment Key messages Staffordshire Moorlands - Declaring a climate emergency Staffordshire Moorlands - Current emissions profile Carbon budget…
… ...........................................................4 The Paris Agreement ..........................................5 UK commitment ....................................................6 Key messages .......................................................7 Staffordshire Moorlands - Declaring a climate emergency .....................8 Staffordshire Moorlands - Current emissions profile ...................................9 Carbon budget…
… consequences from more frequent and intense droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, and melting glaciers upon people’s lives and livelihoods as well as whole communities and ecosystems. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe and the environmental, economic and social costs increasing. BACKGROUND 5 THE PARIS AGREEMENT THE PARIS…
… AGREEMENT The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. The agreement was negotiated by representatives of 196 state parties at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC held near Paris, France, and adopted by consensus on 12th December 2015…
…. As of February 2021, 191 members of the UNFCCC are parties to the agreement. The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2020, but officially re-joined on 19th February 2021. The Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal is to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing…