Strategies to Address Climate Change

Outline strategies to address climate change by either Government, pressure groups or individuals. In the UK the government nationwide has created the clime change act of 2008, the UK was the first country in the world to set a legally binding climate reduction, and the target is to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050. The targets are created at a 4 yearly interval which are; 22% in 2008 to 2012, 28% in 2013 to 2017 and 34% in 2018 to 2022. These reductions are the targeted to be the percentage below of what was collected in the 90’s. These 4 yearly targets were set in May 2009. The low carbon transition plan outlines how the UK will reach the climate act targets, this plan prediction its will save around 700m tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, each department within the government was given a target and produced a carbon delivery plan. This links to the carbon trust which was created by the government in 2001, which is working with other organisations to help reduce these emissions. The low carbon transition plan has outlined the framework for future climate risks, so to improve this the government plan to; work with the private sector so they is more awareness and hopefully new business will be encouraged to revolutionise. Protect natural set-ups from climate dangers. Design cities to deal with heat waves within the summer which is due to urban heat island effect. Local policies are where the governments are areas decide on schemes to create more awareness and reduce emissions. There were three main polices in the Uk, these were; keep Leicester cool which was a publicity champagne to promote how to reduce your carbon foot print, this was created in 2003. This campaign was mainly focused on the Asian population of the city which is 30% of Leicester’s populations. Another policy was carbon neutral Newcastle the main focus of this was to create awareness of climate change and how to reduce their carbon emissions of people and business’. The local government