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… this emergency. 9. The UK Committee on Climate Change, along with the IPCC, both reference dates of 2050 to achieve carbon neutrality which the UK Government announced it would adopt on the 12 June 2019. Extinction Rebellion state that we should aim for carbon net zero by 2025. Southwark Climate emergency declaration 10. The council declared a climate emergency in March 2019 and vowed to “do all…
… RICHARD LIVINGSTONE, CABINET MEMBER FOR ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY On 27 March 2019, Southwark Council declared the Climate Emergency and committed to do all it can to make the borough carbon neutral by 2030 – twenty years earlier than its previous target. Some of this will need government and others to change their approach, but this is no excuse for the council not to do…
… it can to make the borough carbon neutral by 2030.” 11. The council knows that this will require urgent action at all levels of government, and that we need to go further, faster and set an example to others and show leadership. The actions the council can take will not only deliver a more environmentally sustainable borough, but also wider social, economic and health benefits. 12. The council…
… hosted its first Climate Emergency Summit in response to the declaration by council assembly of a climate emergency on 27 March 2019. 14. The summit was attended by around 100 representatives from stakeholders, community groups, voluntary sector and environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. Representatives from the GLA and central government agencies…
… and consultation with residents and stakeholders and that officers would develop this as part of the strategy. 18. Officers were asked to develop governance arrangements, and to ensure that a formal consultative group would be formed to shape and steer the development and delivery of the strategy. The Southwark carbon context 19. The targets set out in the Climate Emergency Declaration are challenging…