Including the closely related term sustainability.
… Strategy: Build Back Greener and made a commitment in the UK’s Sixth Carbon Budget to set in law a climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. The Climate Change Committee’s ‘Progress in reducing emissions: 2022 Report to Parliament’ highlighted the importance of continued and sustained action to tackle climate change at a national level. There has also been…
… publication of climate change strategies for specific areas and government departments, including the Department for Education’s ‘Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy’, which outlines plans and priorities for English schools, ranging from the curriculum to management of school buildings. All of these national strategies will inform how we tackle climate change in Essex. Closer to home, Essex County…
…://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2022-Report-to-Parliament.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainability-and-climate-change-strategy https://www.essexclimate.org.uk/ https://www.essexclimate.org.uk/ 1. Land Use & Green Infrastructure Greening our landscape is the best protection against…
… increasing risks of flooding, water scarcity, overheating and soil degradation. This means setting aside land for woodland, meadows and salt marsh in our rural areas and making space for trees, sustainable drainage and pocket parks in our towns and villages. This green infrastructure helps the land to act as a sponge, absorbing heavy rainfall when it arrives. The land can store the water rather than…
… disappeared in Essex. More than 60 per cent of Essex is farmland, and agriculture currently generates approximately 11 per cent of UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (ONS data). To secure food production long term we need to move to sustainable farming practices: this is needed to both to cut our carbon emissions but also to protect our precious soils (State of the environment: soil report, Agricultural…