The work of the Joint Committee looking at the draft Climate Change Bill has now finished. You can read their conclusions here.

Though the work of the JC is now over, Alan will still be working hard on the bill when it comes back before Parliament in the autumn. You can still fill in the survey below to indicate your views on the bill, though it is now too late for your views to influence Alan's input into the Joint Committee report.

1. The National Carbon budget

The Climate Change Bill will propose setting a ‘budget’ for the total amount of carbon Britain could pump into the atmosphere.  Each budget will be set to incrementally reduce our overall carbon emissions over time.  Some people favour annual reduction targets, however energy use can fluctuate from year to year due to a particularly cold winter or a hot summer.  How long should a carbon budget be set for?

2. Reduction targets

The Bill proposes that by 2050 the UK will have to reduce its carbon emissions by 60% from 1990 levels with an interim target of 26-32% by 2020.  Do you think this is:

3. International Action

The Bill sets out further provision for regulating Britain’s role in international carbon trading schemes.  However, Britain only produces 2% of the world’s carbon emissions.  Even if we ‘show the way,’ we still ultimately have to get other countries to sign up to similar measures.  How should we do this?

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