Environmental Audit Committee - Third Report
Carbon budgets

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 5 January 2010.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 The global objective

Limiting the rise in average global temperature

Peaks and tipping points

Equity and burden sharing

The scientific basis for setting budgets

An appropriate level of risk?

3 The UK's domestic targets and budgets

Setting targets and budgets

The 2050 target

Carbon budgets

The 2020 target

Aviation and shipping

4 Delivering the carbon budgets

The Government's track record in reducing emissions

The rate of emissions reduction

The policy framework

Energy policy

Energy efficiency improvements

National Policy Statements

Managing the budgets

Measuring emissions

The role of offsets

Departmental budgets and carbon reduction delivery plans

5 Conclusions

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses (Volume II)

List of written evidence (Volume II)

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence - HC 228-II
9 June 2009
23 June 2009
14 July 2009
27 October 2009
Written Evidence

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Prepared 11 January 2010