| Targets
1. The validity of the Government's domestic targets to
- reduce CO2 emissions by 60% below 1990 baseline levels by 2050, and
- reduce CO2 emissions by 26-32% below 1990 baseline levels by 2020.
2. Why the carbon budget for the period including the year 2020 cannot exceed 32%.
3. The rationale for the five-year budgetary period.
4. Monitoring and early warning systems to ensure achievement of targets is on track.
5. Accountability and enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance with targets, and sanctions in cases of non-compliance.
Carbon budgeting
6. The facility—in any given budgetary period—to 'borrow' emissions rights from a subsequent period, or to 'bank' any 'surplus' emissions reductions for use in the next budgetary period.
7. The facility to purchase carbon credits from outside the UK to meet domestic targets, in terms of their overall quantity and sources.
8. The range and validity of changes in circumstances in which budgets can be subject to review and revision.
9. The reporting procedure and Parliamentary accountability.
Adaptation
10. Whether adequate provision is made within the Bill to address adaptation to climate change.
Committee on Climate Change
11. Its composition and appointment, including length of tenure and degree of independence.
12. Its function and responsibilities.
13. Its powers in determining carbon budgets and the provisions within each budget.
14. The adequacy of its range of functions in overseeing the targets.
15. The resources available to the Committee.
Enabling powers
16. The adequacy and implications of the proposed enabling powers allowing the Secretary of State to establish greenhouse gas emission trading schemes by means of secondary legislation.
International implications
17. The validity of the Government's view that the Bill will act as an effective example to drive international climate change policy post-2012. |
