1. Climate Change and how to keep positive
- Facts….progress….accelerating action
- How to keep positive!
MA RK T HOM PS ON
2. Other talks
1. October 1st – How we might fully decarbonise electricity and “smart” energy
2. November 5th
- Plugin and electric vehicles
3. December 3rd
– Agriculture, food and land use (Paul Eaton)
4. Dates TBC
• Biodiversity
• Resources, consumerism, recycling, landfill etc (Andrew Ross)
• Transport
• Home energy efficiency – practical stuff!
• Understanding, reducing and mitigating your own carbon footprint
6. Hot house world - land and migration impacts
Sahara expansion
High temperature and humidity = “uninhabitable”
Asia rivers heavily
impacted by glacier loss
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Mass migration to here!
12. Runaway effects
https://slideplayer.com/slide/13363078/
Amazon rainforest collapse (3-5oC rise)
• The largest land absorber of CO2
• Creates its own wet climate/rainfall
• Rising temperature will dry the forest
• Deforestation compounds (17% in last 50 years)
Sea Ice melting (1-3oC rise)
• Reflects sunlight back to the
atmosphere
• When melted exposed ocean
will ABSORB the suns energy
https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/melting_permafrost.asp
Permafrost thawing (5+oC rise)
• Frozen soil with trapped methane and CO2
20. Government action….(based on democracy!)
A manifesto needs to say it will pursue policies of this sort:
1. Bring in measures to discourage the consumption of meat
2. Increase energy prices by raising VAT on gas and electricity from 5% to 20%
3. Make it illegal to fell trees with a diameter greater than 100mm without a government permit
4. Seek to ban all natural gas heating boiler and gas hob sales from 2025 replacing them with heat pumps
and extensive insulation upgrades
34. Council declarations
Ards and North Down Borough Council
Bath and North East Somerset
Bedford Borough Council - aspiring for carbon neutral by 2030
Birmingham City Council - aspiring to a carbon neutral Birmingham by 2030
Blackpool Council - carbon neutral by 2030, expresses fundamental opposition to fracking
Bradford Metropolitan District Council - (90% reduction in carbon emissions compared to 2005 levels by 2030)
Brighton Hove City Council - (carbon neutral by 2030)
Bristol City Council - (carbon neutral by 2030)
Calderdale (no fixed target date)
Cambridge City Council (no new target date, campaign continues to press for a more ambitious target)
Carlisle (net zero carbon by 2030)
Carmarthenshire (zero carbon by 2030)
Cheltenham (carbon neutral by 2030)
Cheshire West and Chester (aspires to carbon netural by 2030)
Cornwall County Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Derby City Council
Devon County Council (but 2030 target was voted down to shouts of 'shame')
Dorset
Durham County Council (zero carbon by 2050 - amendment for a 2030 target date defeated)
East Hampshire District Council
Eastbourne Borough Council
Edinburgh City Council
Forest of Dean District Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Gwynedd County Council (carbon neutral eventually)
Hampshire County Council
Hastings Borough
Herefordshire - 'aspiration to be carbon neutral by 2030' (motion p79) - but criticised for their determination to press ahead with new bypass road
Hull - climate neutral by 2030 (doesn't include the words 'declare a climate emergency')
Isles of Scilly
Kent County Council (proposal for a 2030 target to becomre carbon neutral ammended to 2050)
Kirklees Metropolitan District Council (carbon neutral in line with IPCC carbon targets)
Lancashire
Lancaster City Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Leeds City Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Leicester City Council (carbon neutral by 2025-2030)
Lewes District Council
Greater London Authority - call for the Mayor to declare climate emergency (motion) which he did a few days later
London Borough of Brent (striving to be carbon neutral by 2030)
London Borough of Camden - issued calls for input ahead of a citizens assembly to be held in July 2019
London Borough of Ealing (carbon neutral by 2030)
London Borough of Enfield
London Borough of Greenwich - declaration made by a senior councillor, not through a resolution
London Borough of Haringey - carbon neutral by 2030
London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hackney (declared by Mayor of Hackney)
London Borough of Lambeth (carbon neutral by 2030)
London Borough of Lewisham (carbon neutral by 2030)
London Borough of Newham - carbon neutral by 2030
London Borough of Redbridge - council operations carbon neutral by 2030
London Borough of Southwark - carbon neutral by 2030
London Borough of Tower Hamlets - carbon neutral by 2025
London Borough of Waltham Forest
Maidstone
Manchester City Council (carbon neutral by 2038, activists have created a petition to call for an emergency to be declared and for a 2030 target)
Medway
Mendip District Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Milton Keynes - (carbon neutral by 2030)
Moray Council - (carbon neutral by 2030)
Newcastle - carbon neutral by 2030
North Hertfordshire District Council
North Somerset Council (net zero carbon by 2030)
Norwich (motion amended to 'acknowledge' climate emergency, no target date set)
Northamptonshire
Nottingham City Council (carbon neutral by 2028)
Oxford City Council (carbon neutrality target TBC)
Oxfordshire County Council - carbon neutral by 2030
Plymouth (carbon neutral by 2030)
Portsmouth - carbon neutral by 2030
Powys County Council (carbon neutral eventually)
Preston
Reading Borough Council (to pursue zero carbon by 2030, but notes 'this date can only be achieved with substantial policy changes from national government'. - final motion on last 2 pages
of meeting agenda)
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council - aiming for zero carbon by 2030 with the condition that carbon capture and storage will be used due to the heavy industry in the area.
Reigate and Banstead B.C.
Richmond
Rushcliffe
Scarborough Borough Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Sheffield City Council (carbon neutral asap)
Shropshire (carbon neutral 2030)
Somerset
Somerset West and Taunton - carbon neutral by 2030
South Cambridgeshire (target date of 2050)
South Lakeland District Council - no fixed date
Suffolk
Sunderland City Council - carbon neutral by 2030, subject to public consultation
Surrey County Council
Stroud District Council (carbon neutral by 2030)
Teignbridge District Council (carbon neutral by 2025)
Three Rivers District Council
Trafford Council - (carbon neutrality target TBC)
Vale of White Horse
Watford (carbon neutral by 2030)
Welwyn Hatfield
Wiltshire County Council - carbon neutral by 2030
Winchester City Council (aims for council operations to be carbon neutral by 2024 and for the wider district to be carbon neutral by 2030)
Windsor and Maidenhead (net zero by 2050)
Wirral
City of York - carbon neutral by 2030
39. You have more influence than you may think
Create power at the ballot box!
Those around you
• Friends
• Family
• Neighbours
• Peer group
Communities you
engage with
Any “noise” you
make!
Whatever you do yourself makes a positive contribution!
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46. Future talks
1. October 1st – Energy solutions and how they might affect you
• Electricity and smart technology
• Heat in homes
• Transport
• Industry…hydrogen…carbon capture and storage
2. November 5th
- Plugin and electric vehicles
3. December 3rd
– Agriculture, food and land use (Paul Eaton)
4. Dates TBC
• Biodiversity
• Resources, consumerism, recycling, landfill etc (Andrew Ross)
• Home energy efficiency – practical stuff!
• Understanding, reducing and mitigating your own carbon footprint
