27th February 2024
Climate Change Committee
In the UK the Climate Change Act (2008) was brought in to address the climate crisis. The Act created the Climate Change Committee as an independent body to advise the government. The Committee produces draft carbon budgets covering 5 year periods with each budget reducing step by step the UK’s emissions towards net zero. As of 2019 these budgets are aimed at achieving net zero by 2050.
The diagram below shows how this is intended to happen. The Third budget should achieve a reduction in UK emissions to 2544 million tonnes by 2022, a 38% reduction compared with 1990 levels. Whether this has been achieved has yet to be reported. It should be details in the CCC 2024 Progress Report (still awaiting publication).
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