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… emissions of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century. With policies currently put in place by national governments, it is projected that temperatures will reach about 3.0°C above pre-industrial levels by 21004. In June 2019, the UK Government amended the 2008 Climate Change Act to include a commitment to a 100% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The impacts of climate…
… challenging for Cambridge as a city to reach net zero carbon without national Government putting in place a much more ambitious policy framework and greater investment to drive the changes needed to reach net zero carbon. As part of this strategy, we will work with others, including the UK100 grouping of local authorities to lobby Government for greater, more co- ordinated and more rapid action…
…. At the twenty first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in 2015 in Paris, national governments committed to limit global temperature increases to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit increase to 1.5°C3. To achieve this, parties to the agreement agreed to reach net zero global…
… and the cost of solar PV panels and electric vehicles. These cost reductions are driven by scale manufacturing, investor confidence and ‘learning-by-doing’ during deployment8. ● Increasing national net zero carbon commitments. Since the UK Government announced a national target for net zero carbon emissions by 2050, China, the EU, Japan and South Korea have all announced net zero emissions targets…
… Committee advises national Government on targets and delivery, and measures progress towards net zero. The Committee suggests that, with recent UK carbon emissions reductions coming primarily from the transition away from coal-fired power to renewable energy sources, future UK reductions must come from buildings, industry, transport, agriculture and phasing out gas-fired power.14 Figure 4…