Climate Change

 

Wind turbine

What is climate change?

Climate is the average weather experienced over a long period of time. Climate change is the significant alteration of climatic conditions. There is large scale consensus that human emissions of CO2, mostly through burning fossil fuels, is leading to changes in the atmosphere and consequently our climate.
 
For the UK this will mean hotter, drier summers, together with milder, wetter winters, and increased flood risk as sea levels rise.

 

CO2 and global warming

 

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a natural gas in the earth's atmosphere. It acts like glass in a greenhouse keeping the earth warm by trapping the sun's rays. If too much CO2 is produced through the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil it cannot be absorbed naturally. It remains in the atmosphere resulting in increased warming and climate change.

 

What is a carbon footprint?

 

What is Peterborough City Council doing to combat climate change?

 

Peterborough City Council wants to give residents as much information as possible about the impacts, consequences and actions that can be taken to reduce our impact on climate change. Our climate change team will be present at a number of key roadshows across the city during the summer including;

 

Green festival Sat 24 May
Old Dogsthorpe festival Sat 14 June
Peterborough festival Sat 28th June
Westwood and Ravensthorpe festival Sat 12 July
Bretton festival Sat 19 July
 Active day Fri 25 July

Community family funday

(Orton Goldhay, Lady Lodge Arts centre)

 Sat 30 August
Central park fun day Sun 31st August
Peterborough City Council. Town Hall, Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1QT - (01733) 747474 - DX12310 Peterborough 1