Mayor of London unveils 1.5C Climate Action Plan

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a new 1.5C Compatible Plan to combat the urgency of climate change.

London has a new 1.5C Compatible Plan
 to combat the urgency of climate change.

To make London a zero carbon city by 2050, spatial models of London’s building and energy systems were used to access the impact of specific policies, as well as the cost implications.  

The key messages from the plan includes urgently needing to increase the number of buildings retrofitted with energy efficiency measures.

The plan also stated that London’s path towards a low carbon future relies on continued grid decarbonisation and more ambitious national government action. If government further decarbonised energy systems and buildings UK wide, carbon could be reduced by an extra 30 per cent.

Read the Climate Action story by Rachel Cooper - “Mayor of London unveils 1.5C Climate Action Plan.”