Wednesday 3 December,
14.30, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
How realistic and deliverable is the Seventh Carbon Budget (CB7)
for UK industry? On Wednesday 3 December, MPs will hear views
from a range of sectors including energy, shipping, steel,
aviation and automotive.
The Environmental Audit Committee is currently conducting an
inquiry into CB7, the next of a series of five-year plans to get
the UK to net zero emissions by 2050. The Climate Change
Committee (CCC) recommends the UK set the next budget at 535
million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) down from
965 million tonnes in the Sixth Carbon Budget.
In its Balanced Pathway advice, the CCC recommends reducing the
contribution of fossil fuels from 73% in 2025 to 14% in 2050,
with a significant increase in electricity and a decline in gas.
MPs will ask witnesses whether these proposals are deliverable,
what key barriers face achieving this energy mix, and whether
there might be alternative pathways.
MPs and witnesses are also likely to discuss how:
- Government can help industry to decarbonise its energy supply
- The aviation industry will meet targets to reduce emissions
- To speed up the deployment of heat pumps and reduce
electricity prices
- To overcome public perceptions that sustainable technologies
are too complex or expensive
Witnesses
From 14.30:
- Claire Dykta, Director of Strategy & Policy, National
Energy System Operator
- Victoria Whitehouse, Deputy Director, UKRI Industrial
Decarbonisation Challenge
-
, Chair, Anaerobic Digestion
and Bioresources Association
From 15.10:
- Jonathon Counsell, Group Head of Sustainability,
International Airlines Group
- Dr Edmund Hughes, Director, Green Marine Associates
- Gareth Stace, Director General, UK Steel
From 15.50:
- Caroline Bragg, CEO, Association for Decentralised Energy
- Tanya Sinclair, CEO, Electric Vehicles UK
