Download or read book House of Commons Environmental Audit Office Progress on Carbon Budgets HC 60 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's existing carbon budgets represent the minimum level of emissions reduction required to avoid a global 2 degrees temperature rise - regarded as a dangerous threshold - and the UK's leading climate scientists do not believe loosening the budgets is warranted. The current (2008-2012) and second (2013-2017) carbon budgets will be easily met because of the recession. But the UK is not on track to meet the third (2018-22) and fourth budgets (2023-2027), because not enough progress is being made in decarbonising transport, buildings and heat production. The Government's Carbon Plan - which set milestones for five key Government Departments to cut carbon - is out of date without any quarterly progress reports published yet. The Green Deal has also had low take-up rates so far. The Government should set a 2030 decarbonisation target for the power sector now, rather than in 2016 as the Energy Bill sets out. The Government should also reconsider placing a statutory duty on local authorities to produce low-carbon plans for their area. The current low-carbon price in the EU ETS - the result of the economic downturn of recent years and over-allocation of emissions permits - also means that that scheme will not deliver the emissions reductions envisaged when the fourth carbon budget was set. Without any tightening of the EU ETS increased pressure will therefore be placed on the non-traded sector, which will have to produce further emissions reductions to cover the emerging gap left by the traded sector

Download or read book Carbon Budgets written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report finds that the Government is only on track to meet its first carbon budget because of the impact of the recession. There is now a worrying shortfall in delivery; UK emissions are currently falling by only about 1 per cent per year, instead of the 2-3 per cent per year which is needed. The management of the carbon budget is as vital as that of the fiscal budget and requires the same level of political attention, civil service commitment, and parliamentary scrutiny. Although the scientific case for more stringent targets is growing, the Government should focus on making more rapid progress against its existing budgets. The Government must first deliver the carbon savings promised in its Low Carbon Transition Plan, then urgently bring forward new measures to increase the rate at which emissions are falling to 2-3 per cent per year and then move to tighten carbon budgets and increase the 2020 target for reducing emissions to a cut of 42 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. The Committee is also calling on the Government to: work in international climate negotiations on getting emissions to peak as soon as possible; secure competitive advantages for the UK in emerging markets for low-carbon technologies by being prepared to move unilaterally; monitor the latest science and start planning the options available for reducing emissions further and faster in case the scale of the crisis demands bigger cuts; put the right regulatory framework in place to ensure that we do not wrongly invest in high-carbon infrastructure.

Download or read book Meeting Carbon Budgets Ensuring a Low carbon Recovery written by Committee on Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Government Response to the Fourth Annual Progress Report of the Committee on Climate Change written by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to the 4th Progress Report - Meeting Carbon Budgets - http: //hmccc.s3.amazonaws.com/2012 Progress/CCC_Progress Rep 2012_bookmarked_spreads_1.pdf, issued on the 28 June 201

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Download or read book HM Government Government Response to the Fifth Annual Progress Report of the Committee on Climate Change Meeting the Carbon Budgets 2013 Progress Report to Parliament written by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to the 5th Progress Report - Meeting Carbon Budgets - http://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/2013-progress-report/

Download or read book City Carbon Budgets written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Business Accountability for Climate Change written by Maida Hadziosmanovic and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions regarding climate change accountability, and accordingly, the effort-sharing of climate change mitigation, have focused predominantly on the role of nation-states as the most relevant actors. Yet, companies that are contributing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere have not similarly been held accountable, nor have they been given clear mitigation guidelines that follow global climate targets. In this study, I aim to encourage business accountability by highlighting the emissions contributions of public companies and the need for reliable corporate reporting and mitigation efforts. I evaluate reported company emissions in 2015, and allocate sectoral carbon emissions budgets associated with the climate targets of remaining below a global mean temperature increase of 1.5°C, and 2°C. I then provide linear, exponential, and logistic functions as future sectoral emissions pathways that conform to these budgets. I also evaluate corporate reporting patterns in the context of company market value and location. Results show that only 7% of companies worldwide report direct emissions. These companies account for a fifth of global CO2 emissions in 2015. Pathways constrained to the 1.5°C budget especially suggest that early and stringent mitigation is critical. Companies may favour the logistic pathway which accommodates an initial lag in emissions reductions, though it forecasts rigorous mitigation requirements in the near future. Weak but significant positive correlations between company market capitalization and emissions may indicate that larger companies are more likely to report greater emissions, and that market value may have potential to be used as a proxy for estimating company emissions. Sectoral level analyses would be improved if corporate emissions disclosure was widespread and verified for reliability. Achieving global climate goals requires accountability that goes beyond the nation-state boundary and that reaches businesses. Moreover, emissions disclosure paves the way for effective business mitigation efforts.

Download or read book Building a Low carbon Economy written by Great Britain. Committee on Climate Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change resulting from CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions poses a huge threat to human welfare. To contain that threat, the world needs to cut emissions by about 50 per cent by 2050, and to start cutting emissions now. A global agreement to take action is vital. A fair global deal will require the UK to cut emissions by at least 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. In this report, the Committee on Climate Change explains why the UK should aim for an 80 per cent reduction by 2050 and how that is attainable, and then recommends the first three budgets that will define the path to 2022. But the path is attainable at manageable cost, and following it is essential if the UK is to play its fair part in avoiding the far higher costs of harmful climate change. Part 1 of the report addresses the 2050 target. The 80 per cent target should apply to the sum of all sectors of the UK economy, including international aviation and shipping. The costs to the UK from this level of emissions reduction can be made affordable - estimated at between 1-2 per cent of GDP in 2050. In part 2, the Committee sets out the first three carbon budgets covering the period 2008-22, and examines the feasible reductions possible in various sectors: decarbonising the power sector; energy use in buildings and industry; reducing domestic transport emissions; reducing emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases; economy wide emissions reductions to meet budgets. The third part of the report examines wider economic and social impacts from budgets including competitiveness, fuel poverty, security of supply, and differences in circumstances between the regions of the UK.

Download or read book Meeting Carbon Budgets the Need for a Step Change written by Great Britain. Committee on Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meeting Carbon Budgets 2015 Progress Report to Parliament written by Great Britain. Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Response to the Committee on Climate Change written by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated October 2016. Summary document of responses to: 'Meeting carbon budgets - 2015 progress report to Parliament' which can be found at https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/6.737_CCC-BOOK_WEB_250615_RFS.pdf and 'Progress in preparing for climate change 2015: Report to Parliament' which can be found at https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/6.736_CCC_ASC_Adaptation-Progress-Report_2015_FINAL_WEB_250615_RFS.pdf. A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government

Download or read book Meeting Carbon Budgets written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Response to the Committee on Climate Change written by Great Britain. Department of Energy and Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress on Carbon Budgets written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 60, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215062475)

Download or read book Government Response to the First Annual Progress Report of the Committee on Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to the 1st Progress Report - Meeting Carbon Budgets - the need for a step change - http://hmccc.s3.amazonaws.com/21667%20CCC%20Report%20AW%20WEB.pdf, issued 12th October 2009