… against a 1990 baseline. It previously required an 80% emission reduction but was updated in 2019 after the Climate Change Committee produced a report called ‘Net Zero- The UK’s contribution to stopping global warming’. As a result the UK became the first major economy to commit to a net zero carbon target by 2050. The 2016 Paris Agreement, ratified by the UK, has the aim to ‘strengthen…
… increase beyond which catastrophic climate change is predicted. It will also help with our national target to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement. No later than 2030, we will have mechanisms in place to invest in projects within the town that capture all of our residual carbon emissions 6 1.5 Working Together Locally Meeting the target of a carbon neutral town by 2030…