Environmental Audit Committee - Seventh 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 14 September 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1  Introduction

Our inquiry

2  The Government's ambition

Fourth carbon budget

Carbon budgets and limiting global temperature rise

Tightening the first three carbon budgets

International carbon offset credits

Accounting for carbon emissions

3  Proposed review of the fourth carbon budget

The rationale for the 2014 review

4  The Carbon Plan

The Plan as an aid to managing emissions reductions

Departmental incentives and accountability

Role of local authorities and businesses

5  Carbon leakage

The extent of the carbon leakage risk

Potential impact of carbon leakage

Reducing the risk of carbon leakage

6  Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Written Evidence

Additional (Uprinted) Written Evidence

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Prepared 11 October 2011