Latest science and international commitments set parameters for UK efforts to tackle climate change
Oct 13, 2015
The UK’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% in 2050 remains in line with the international commitment to 2°C, the Committee on Climate Change says today. The UK must also agree reductions to 2030 as part of its “fifth carbon budget”. A reduction in emissions beyond those currently agreed for the mid-2020s is consistent with the UK’s cost-effective path to 2050, and with scientific and international developments.
In a new report, ‘ The scientific and international context for the fifth carbon budget ’, the Committee sets out the climate science and global circumstances that will inform its advice to Government on the fifth carbon budget. That advice is due to be published at the end of November, ahead of the international climate talks in Paris.
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