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Time to get on with it--before time runs out: the mock climate change planning policy statement recently produced by the TCPA and Friends of the Earth aims to provide a route map for action to be taken through the planning system.(planning and climate change)(Town and Country Planning Association)
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November 1, 2006
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AN ARTICLE written for Town & Country Planning back in July this year (1) stressed that climate change had soared up the political agenda. Encouragingly, this remains true, likely in part driven by the growing evidence of the havoc that climate change could wreak. But new research from the Tyndall Centre has a stark message: new policies to reduce carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) emissions must be put in place urgently if we are to stand any chance of reaching stabilisation targets. This means that atmospheric concentrations of C[O.sub.2] should be no more than 450 parts per million by 2050. Actions over the next three years will define the future of the next 60.
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