Including 7 closely related terms such as develop, development, and sustainable development goal.
… with this agreement, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 which are a global urgent call to action to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030. Climate change is embedded throughout the goals, and is specifically addressed in goal 13, take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Nationally, the Climate Change Act 2008, updated in 2019, commits…
… reduction in emissions by 2025. Actions in the Plan focus on how carbon emissions will be reduced from our services and ways of working by embedding climate considerations throughout, how we will provide our staff with training and skills to integrate carbon reduction in their work, how we will manage our buildings and land by using sustainable best practices, and how important it is to work with our…
… the climate emergency, and embeds sustainability throughout the other themes. Not only will the Climate Action Plan improve our council operations and services for residents, it will also contribute to the urgent global climate change agenda, which we were so recently reminded of at COP26 in Glasgow, as well as the UK’s net zero targets. We also look forward to working in partnership across the county…
… climate change. As a council, we have also signed up to One Planet Oxfordshire, a co-created vision and action plan on the future of a more sustainable Oxfordshire. Locally, as a council we declared a climate emergency in February 2019. As a result of these declarations, we set our targets to: • Be carbon neutral within our own operations by 2030, with an aim for a 75 per cent reduction in carbon…
… and policies that address the climate emergency, including: The publication of our tree policy for planting trees on council land, supporting the increase of tree planting across our districts Incorporating carbon neutral and sustainable features throughout our design guide Create a Climate Action Fund to accelerate local action The 2021 town and parish forum focused on ‘climate action…