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… have less than 12 years to act to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The report highlights a number of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C, or more. It suggests that limiting global warming to 1.5°C may still be possible with ambitious action across all national governments that signed the Paris Agreement. On 12th June…
… 2019, the UK government amended the Climate Change Act 2008, introducing a net-zero greenhouse gases target by 2050. This means emissions from homes; transport, farming and industry will have to be avoided completely or in the most difficult cases offset by planting trees or sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere. On 24th June 2019, Charnwood Borough Council declared its ambition to be a carbon…
… of a changing climate. Significant progress has been made so far in improving the energy efficiency of our own operations and reducing the overall carbon emissions associated with them. However, there is still much more we need to achieve to move towards a low carbon future as we all work to deliver the Government’s strategy and our ambition to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030. Climate change…
…-scale, long-term shift in the Earth’s weather patterns or average temperatures. In recent decades, changes in the climate have caused extreme weather conditions such as flash floods, storms and high winds, heatwaves, and a reduction in summer water availability. In January 2018, the Government published ‘A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment’. The 25 year plan confirms…
… the government’s aim to take all possible action to mitigate climate change, while adapting to reduce its impact by continuing to cut greenhouse gas emissions and making sure that all policies, programmes and investment decisions take into account the possible extent of climate change this century. The International Panel on climate change published a report in October 2018 which concluded that we…