… Plan with the Sixth Carbon Budget .................................................. 5 Orientation .................................................................................................................................. 6 2. Defining Climate Change ................................................................................................................. 7 Paris Agreement…
… periods, whilst red and dark colours show periods of hotter temperatures, which coincides strongly with increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 3: Climate Stripes showing average annual global temperatures over the past two centuries 2.1. Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement was a landmark legally binding treaty made between 196 countries at the Conference…
… of the Parties (COP) 21 event in Paris in 2015. The treaty commits governments to work towards limiting global warming to well below 2.0°C and preferably less than 1.5°C to avoid the worst, and in some cases, irreversible effects of climate change. As part of the Paris Agreement, governments are required to develop Nationally Determined Contributions, known as NDC’s, to determine how their economies…
… will deliver the required levels of decarbonisation under the Agreement. The UK Government’s Net Zero Strategy summarised in Section 3 is intended to form part of the UK’s NDC to limit global warming in accordance with the Paris Agreement. 2.2. Global Carbon Budgets The remaining global carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C with a probability of 67% by the end of the century is 400…
… Landscape An appreciation of the existing and future UK energy landscape can help us to plan and implement actions that will provide both near and long-term solutions to reduce our carbon footprint. The following sections provide an overview of the Government’s Net-Zero Strategy which, together with the Paris Agreement and Carbon budgets set out in sections 2 and 3, will inform actions within…