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• CO2 calculator
• Reduce your carbon footprint: 10% per year

The climate crisis and what to do about it

• Climate crisis 10-point action plan
• Key points
• IPCC report of 2018: halve emissions by 2030
• Climate change: the basics
• Stop burning fossil fuels: Stay within the budget of 420Gt CO2
• Global emissions are rising and governments are failing
• The rising feeling of desperation
• Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

Action needed

• Summary
• Local government
• Local government: Make walking safe
• National government
• Organisations
• Individuals
• Passivhaus home standards
• 'Offsetting'?

False and dubious solutions

• Planting trees
• Tree planting claims by Zurich scientists were withdrawn
• "Hydrogen power"

Awareness raising

• Leaflets, video

Civil disobedience

• Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A
• Civil disobedience and the law
• Greta Thunberg and the school strikes
• Extinction Rebellion

Reasons for optimism

• Decline in UK domestic aviation
• Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Tecnicalities by sector

• The UK has not cut its greenhouse gas emissions
• International comparisons
• The basics
• Emissions from home energy
• "Green electricity"
• Emissions from cars
• Emissions from food
• Health, education, etc emissions
• Buses
• Trains
• Aviation
• UK average footprint
• References
• Calculator version information

Standards of administration in a democracy

• Effective planning
• Nolan's Seven Principles of Public Life

Performance assessments

• Assessing performance on the climate crisis
• BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions
• Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis
• Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis

Best practice examples

• Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

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• Average temperatures are increasing
• There are more droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, storms and floods.
• Climate refugees have been forced from their homes by their land becoming infertile.

• There is little doubt that climate change is due to greenhouse gases (especially CO2) released into the atmosphere by human activity
• Levels of CO2 have increased steadily since mankind started burning fossil fuels in large quantities
• The average temperature rises are in line with what is predicted by scientists from what is known about the atmosphere

• lethal heatwaves and wildfires (as in California)
• lethal storms: hurricanes, typhoons, floods and mudslides
• civil unrest: e.g. the conflict in Syria
• climate refugees
• loss of species.

• we need rapid and far-reaching transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities
• emissions of CO2 need to halve by 2030, reaching net zero around 2050
• The next few years are probably the most important in our history.

• use less energy
• increase energy generation from sustainable sources
• phase out energy generation from fossil fuel sources.

• The threat from climate change has been known for decades. International agreements have been made but they have been inadequate and compliance with them has been poor.
• World greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase.
• UK greenhouse gas emissions have not fallen (despite official claims)

• In a modern democracy, citizens delegate most decision-making to full-time officials - and these officials are (or should be) supervised by elected politicians.
• But officials and politicians frequently abuse their power and act like masters of the people rather than servants of the people - and this has been happening in climate change policy making.
• So the fight for a safe climate is a fight against abuse of power, and a fight for democracy.

• change their own lifestyle to a sustainable lifestyle (e. g. by using the calculator at https://www.carbonindependent.org/index.html)
• to contribute to an effective plan
• to insist that the decision-makers comply with this plan - by "civil disobedience" i. e. citizen enforcement, if necessary.

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