… ..................................................................................... 13 Move, store and transform energy .............................................................. 13 Sustainable travel ....................................................................................... 14 Resource efficiency .................................................................................... 14 Carbon sequestration…
… of which must be undertaken if runaway warming is to be avoided: Cutting emissions / decarbonisation – this is called climate change mitigation; Adapting to the physical changes of climate change – climate change adaptation; and Actively removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere (such as by tree- planting or direct capture of flue gases) – carbon sequestration. Fife…
… recognises that to avoid catastrophic climate change greenhouse gas emissions must fall as quickly as possible through a programme of mitigation to deliver net zero by 2045 or earlier if possible, and that this programme of mitigation needs to be bolstered by significant works to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere (sequestration) as rapidly as possible. In terms of the climate emergency…
… the priority has to be on rapid decarbonisation and sequestration because this is what is essential to avoid triggering runaway warming. Fife also recognises that adaptation is needed to cope with today’s extremes and will need to be carried out for centuries to come because of the impacts of historic emissions and the time lags in how the atmosphere processes greenhouse gases which mean that climate…
…/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology- committee/news-parliament-2017/clean-growth-report-published-17-19/ 11 https://www.gov.scot/publications/protecting-scotlands-future-governments-programme-scotland-2019- 20/pages/5/ 15 Carbon sequestration Under the carbon sequestration programme, Climate Fife projects will focus on removing carbon dioxide from…