Delivering the Government's climate targets
Wednesday 27 November at 14.30, Wilson Room, Portcullis
House
At COP29, the Prime Minister announced that the UK is to reduce
its climate emissions by 81% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. The
Prime Minister was clear that he would not “tell people how to
run their lives and instruct them how to behave” to meet the
pledge. But can such an ambitious pledge be met without behaviour
change?
In its first session of this Parliament examining how the
Government's climate targets are being delivered, the
Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) will put this issue to the
Climate Change Committee's (CCC) Interim Chair and to its
Director of Analysis. In recommending that the UK Government
commits to a National Determined Contribution (NDC) of 81%, the
CCC has suggested that 10% of emissions savings could come from
areas such as encouraging people to consume less meat and dairy,
reducing air and car travel, and cutting the amount of waste
generated.
In addition to exploring what is needed to meet the UK's NDC, the
Committee will also be discussing the CCC's annual report to
Parliament made in June 2024, seeking the CCC's views on the
prospects of meeting the Sixth Carbon Budget, looking forward to
the CCC's advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget, and discussing the
CCC's assessment of climate-related announcements in the recent
Autumn Budget.
Witnesses
From 14.30:
- Professor Piers Forster, Interim Chair, Climate Change
Committee
- Dr James Richardson, Director of Analysis, Climate Change
Committee
