Can the UK reduce emissions by 81% without behaviour change? EAC quizzes Climate Change Committee

• Inquiry: Delivering the Government's climate targets
• Environmental Audit Committee

In its first session of this Parliament examining how the Government’s climate targets are being delivered, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) will put this issue to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) Interim Chair and to its Director of Analysis. In recommending that the UK Government commits to a National Determined Contribution (NDC) of 81%, the CCC has suggested that 10% of emissions savings could come from areas such as encouraging people to consume less meat and dairy, reducing air and car travel, and cutting the amount of waste generated.

 In addition to exploring what is needed to meet the UK’s NDC, the Committee will also be discussing the CCC’s annual report to Parliament made in June 2024, seeking the CCC’s views on the prospects of meeting the Sixth Carbon Budget, looking forward to the CCC’s advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget, and discussing the CCC’s assessment of climate-related announcements in the recent Autumn Budget. 

On Wednesday 27 November at 2.30pm, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses

From 2.30pm:

• Professor Piers Forster, Interim Chair, Climate Change Committee
• Dr James Richardson, Director of Analysis, Climate Change Committee

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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