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To: Fareham Borough Council
Fareham Boro - please declare Climate Emergency
We are asking Fareham Borough Council to join more than 90 local councils (as well as the UK, Welsh and Scottish government) to declare a climate emergency.
By doing this, and crucially backing it up with action, it will send a message to residents that our councillors take the threat of climate change seriously and vow to do everything in their powers to mitigate against it.
At the moment, Fareham Borough Council are doing very little.
If you live, work or study in the Borough, please sign and share this petition asking Fareham Borough Council to:
- Declare a climate emergency and communicate the urgency to local residents and businesses
- Commit to net zero carbon neutrality by 2025 in Fareham
- Create a representative citizens assembly to promote dialogue, generate ideas and make decisions
- Set up a working group that will report back to full council within six months of its formation with an action plan for achieving carbon neutrality; and
- Call on the UK government to provide the necessary powers and resources to enable these targets to be met and implement best practice methods to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
We need a minimum of 50 signatures, ideally 1500. Please sign if you live or work in the Borough.
By doing this, and crucially backing it up with action, it will send a message to residents that our councillors take the threat of climate change seriously and vow to do everything in their powers to mitigate against it.
At the moment, Fareham Borough Council are doing very little.
If you live, work or study in the Borough, please sign and share this petition asking Fareham Borough Council to:
- Declare a climate emergency and communicate the urgency to local residents and businesses
- Commit to net zero carbon neutrality by 2025 in Fareham
- Create a representative citizens assembly to promote dialogue, generate ideas and make decisions
- Set up a working group that will report back to full council within six months of its formation with an action plan for achieving carbon neutrality; and
- Call on the UK government to provide the necessary powers and resources to enable these targets to be met and implement best practice methods to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
We need a minimum of 50 signatures, ideally 1500. Please sign if you live or work in the Borough.
Why is this important?
We have less than 11 years to take urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5°C or we risk catastrophic and irreversible runaway climate change; this was the stark warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report “Global Warming of 1.5°C”.
Humans have already caused approximately 1.0°C of warming, the devastating impacts of which have been seen around the world in the form of reduction of sea-ice in the Arctic, loss of coral reefs and extreme weather events. Many scientists agree that warming greater than 1.5°C will result in grave consequences for our global environment.
It will impact us locally too. The price of food will rise significantly, there will be more weather extremes, and water shortages.
It’s not too late to limit the problems.
But it will require ambitious action from national and sub-national authorities, civil society, the private sector and local communities.
Humans have already caused approximately 1.0°C of warming, the devastating impacts of which have been seen around the world in the form of reduction of sea-ice in the Arctic, loss of coral reefs and extreme weather events. Many scientists agree that warming greater than 1.5°C will result in grave consequences for our global environment.
It will impact us locally too. The price of food will rise significantly, there will be more weather extremes, and water shortages.
It’s not too late to limit the problems.
But it will require ambitious action from national and sub-national authorities, civil society, the private sector and local communities.
