Net Zero: Making Essex Carbon Neutral Essex Climate Action Commission

Posted on: July 23, 2021

In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 set out the impact of global temperature rise of 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels.

The report warns of increasingly extreme weather events with rising sea levels and melting glaciers; wildlife becoming threatened and at risk of extinction and our own health deteriorating; food becoming scarce and clean water running dry; tensions rising between people and increasing migration and environmental refugees as people flee inhospitable parts of the Earth.

Read the full report here.

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