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South Gloucestershire Council

… change by limiting global heating to well below 2 degrees C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees C. The UK government signed the Paris Agreement committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The world is now on track to overshoot the 1.5°C limit before the year 2050 – the outcome of which would be severe and not possible to reverse. 2000 1950 1900 1850 5 CLIMATE…

… as well as national Government and agencies to take fast climate and ecological action themselves. Over the 10 years we will be adding to this evidence base and provide access to documents where relevant on the councils website. 17 CLIMATE EMERGENCY STRATEGY www.southglos.gov.uk/climatechange The governing bodies There are a range of groups both inside and outside the council who help…

… and local policy National change To deliver our Climate Emergency pledge we will need to work with National Government to develop and implement policies that will support the delivery of our Climate Emergency pledge. Current government policy is for the UK to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Whilst this is later than our Climate Emergency declaration many of the policies needed to deliver…

… was in line with existing UK Government targets; 2. On June 12 2019 the government announced to amend the current UK greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of an 80% reduction by 2050 to cut greenhouse gas emissions to almost net zero by 2050; 3. In 2016, South Gloucestershire’s emissions were measured to be 41% lower than in 1990, which is in line with the national decline in emissions…

…/11/2019 CLIMATE EMERGENCY STRATEGY www.southglos.gov.uk/climatechange 14 South Gloucestershire carbon emissions baseline gap analysis: Due to the complexity of collecting the necessary data, this information takes two years to compile which is why the data is from 2017. This data is provided by the government’s Department of Business Economy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). 2017 South…