In the final session of its inquiry into Building support for
the energy transition, the Commons Energy Security and Net
Zero Committee will examine how the wider impacts of the
transition affect national security, public health and food
production.
The first panel will explore how expanding domestic renewable
energy across a wider range of sites can strengthen the UK's
energy security and resilience. Witnesses will consider how a
more distributed energy system could reduce exposure to supply
shocks, protect critical infrastructure, and limit vulnerability
amid increasing geopolitical instability and the weaponisation of
trade and energy by major global powers.
The session will also examine the health impacts of climate
change already being felt in the UK, alongside the potential
health co-benefits of cleaner energy - including reduced air
pollution and lower pressure on the NHS. Members will ask how far
these impacts are reflected in current policy thinking.
A further focus will be the relationship between the energy
transition and food production, including the perspectives of the
farming and land-owning community on land use, rural economies
and long-term food security.
In the second panel, Ministers and officials from the Department
for Energy Security and Net Zero will give evidence on the
Government's strategic approach to net zero and the energy
transition. The Committee will question how wider economic,
health and security effects are being considered in policy
development, and whether existing frameworks fully capture these
outcomes.
On Wednesday 4
February at 3pm
- Professor Neil Morisetti, Professor of Climate and
Resource Security at University College London
- Dr Marina Romanello, Executive Director, Lancet
Countdown & Associate Professor at Institute for Global
Health, University College London
- Judicaelle Hammond, Director of Policy and Advice
at Country Land and Business Association
At approximately 4.00pm
-
MP, Minister for Climate at
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Ryan McLaughlin, Director of Net Zero Strategy at Department
for Energy Security and Net Zero
