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The Seventh Carbon Budget

Inquiry

This Environmental Audit Committee inquiry will examine the Climate Change Committee's advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget. It will consider the assumptions and costs underpinning the CCC’s recommendations, explore the balance between emerging and established technologies, the policy choices facing Government, and the potential impacts on households, businesses and the wider economy. The inquiry will also look at how the Government should communicate choices and trade-offs, and how Parliament and the public can best scrutinise delivery plans and progress. 

Read the call for evidence for more information about this inquiry, and to find out how to submit written evidence through the Committee’s online evidence submission portal. 

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 5:00pm on 4 November 2025.

Upcoming events

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Past events

Wednesday 7 January 2026
2:30pm Public
The Seventh Carbon Budget - Oral evidence 7 January 2026
2:30pm
  • Polly Cook (Chief Officer, Climate, Energy and Green Spaces at Leeds City Council)
  • Toby Park (Director, Climate, Energy and Sustainability at Behavioural Insights Team)
  • Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE (Director, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations at Department of Psychology, University of Bath)
3:30pm
  • Nigel Topping (Chair at Climate Change Committee)
  • Emma Pinchbeck (CEO at Climate Change Committee)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 3 December 2025
2:30pm Public
The Seventh Carbon Budget - Oral evidence 3 December 2025
2:30pm
  • Claire Dykta (Director of Policy and Strategy at National Energy System Operator (NESO))
  • Victoria Whitehouse (Deputy Director at UKRI Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge)
  • Rt Hon Chris Huhne (Chair at Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association)
3:10pm
  • Jonathon Counsell (Group Sustainability Director at International Airlines Group)
  • Gareth Stace (Director at UK Steel)
  • Dr Edmund Hughes (Director at Green Marine Associates)
3:50pm
  • Caroline Bragg (CEO at Association for Decentralised Energy)
  • Tanya Sinclair (CEO at Electric Vehicles UK)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 12 November 2025
2:00pm Private
2:30pm Public
The Seventh Carbon Budget - Oral evidence 12 November 2025
2:30pm
  • Shaun Spiers (Executive Director at Green Alliance)
  • Professor Joeri Rogelj (Professor of Climate Science & Policy and Director of Research at Imperial College Business School and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment)
3:30pm
  • Mike Childs (Head of Science, Policy and Research at Friends of the Earth)
  • Sam Hunter Jones (Senior Lawyer at ClientEarth)
  • Professor Michael Grubb (Professor of Energy and Climate Change at UCL, and Strategy Director at Economics of Energy Innovation and Systems Transition)
Room 8, Palace of Westminster

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  • Email: eacom@parliament.uk
  • Address: Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA