Wednesday 12 November,
14.30, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
On Wednesday, the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee will
hold the first evidence session for its new inquiry on the
Seventh Carbon Budget (CB7).
The session will explore the ambition of the Climate Change
Committee's advised carbon budget for CB7, what progress the UK
has made to date and what practical steps are needed to ensure
that emissions targets are met.
Throughout the inquiry, MPs will consider the Climate Change
Committee's advice on CB7 and consider what measures the
Government should take into account before proposing the budget,
which covers the years 2038-2042, and how the costs of these will
affect people around the UK.
Committee members are likely to ask expert witnesses about the
Climate Change Committee's advice to government on achieving CB7,
particularly the balance it presents between ambition and
credibility.
In October, the Government published a Carbon Budget and Growth
Delivery Plan, covering Carbon Budgets 4-6, after the High Court
ruled the previous plan unlawful in May 2024. In the second
panel, MPs will hear from two of the organisations who brought
the legal challenge that resulted in that ruling.
MPs are likely to explore the policies set out in the new
Delivery Plan and what areas might need to be strengthened with
new measures, to prevent the Government failing to deliver on
targets.
Witnesses
From 14.30:
- Professor Joeri Rogelj, Director of Research, Grantham
Institute, Climate Change and Environment
- Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance
From 15.30:
- Mike Childs, Head of Science, Policy and Research, Friends of
the Earth
- Sam Hunter Jones, Senior Lawyer, ClientEarth
- Professor Michael Grubb, Strategy and Investment Director,
EEIST; Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University College
London
