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… We at the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk are committed to tackling climate change and minimising our contribution to it. Climate change has risen in the public and political agenda significantly over the past 5 years. Following on from the 2015 Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to 2°C and pursue efforts to further limit warming to 1.5°C, the UK government has now…
… change risks are prepared for. The Strategy approval date: _/_/2021 Page 9 of 37 v.01 Review date: __ 2024 Act also establishes the framework to deliver on these requirements. This Act supports the UK’s commitment to urgent international action to tackle climate change. Initially through the Climate Change Act, the UK government set a target to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions to 80…
… and assesses progress towards tackling them. Updated in 2019, the Climate Change Act commits the UK government by law ensuring that the net UK carbon account for 2050 is at least 100% lower than the 1990 baseline (net zero) (UK Government, 2019). The Climate Change Act requires the government to set legally-binding ‘carbon budgets’ to act as steppingstones towards the 2050 target. A carbon budget…
… is a cap on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the UK over a five-year period. Budgets must be set at least 12 years in advance to allow policymakers, businesses and individuals enough time to prepare (UK Government, 2019). The CCC advises on the appropriate level of each carbon budget. The budgets are designed to reflect a cost-effective way of achieving the UK’s long-term climate change…
… "climate finance" to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy. Strategy approval date: _/_/2021 Page 10 of 37 v.01 Review date: __ 2024 4.3. 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, 2020 In November 2020, the UK Government published their ‘Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution’. This plan set out the Government’s intention to decarbonise the UK through…