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March 2023 Climate change: Is the UK on track to meet its targets? BBC Reality Check Team article
Oct 2022: The climate crisis poses a “significant and growing threat” to health in the UK, the country’s most senior public health expert has warned. (Guardian)
Climate Change Committee June 2022: 2022 progress Report to Parliament “This is a pivotal point in the UK’s journey to Net Zero. The UK is one of the few countries with emissions targets in line with the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Policy ambition has moved substantially with the publication of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy. Now is the time to deliver the promised action.”
Key Messages 2022
The UK Government now has a solid Net Zero strategy in place, but important policy gaps remain.
Tangible progress is lagging the policy ambition. With an emissions path set for the UK and the Net Zero Strategy published, greater emphasis and focus must be placed on delivery.
Successful delivery of changes on the ground requires active management of delivery risks. Not all policies will deliver as planned. Some may be more successful than expected, while others will fall behind.
Action to address the rising cost of living should be aligned with Net Zero. There remains an urgent need for equivalent action to reduce demand for fossil fuels to reduce emissions and limit energy bills.
Slow progress on wider enablers. The Net Zero Strategy contained warm words on many of the cross-cutting enablers of the transition, but there has been little concrete progress.
The UK must build on a successful COP26. The UK presidency of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last November successfully strengthened long-term global ambition and introduced new mechanisms to support delivery. It should prioritise making those new mechanisms work in practice and strengthening global 2030 ambition, while preparing for a focus on climate finance and adaptation at COP27 in 2022 and COP28 in 2023.
Emissions rose 4% in 2021 compared with 2020 as the economy began to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2021: Use the Climate Calculator to choose the climate policies you would like to see in place to help the UK hit its target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Existing policies are likely to get us half way from where we are now to where we need to be. The government knows more is needed – but what?
The Climate Calculator lets you answer this question, based on the impact of different policies, not just on emissions, but also on household budgets, jobs and health. These impacts are based on a mass of research – details on the site (we have not reported on every impact or alternative, only key ones).
2021 Progress Report to Parliament by the Climate Change Committee
Key Messages 2021
The Government has made historic climate promises in the past year, for which it deserves credit. However, it has been too slow to follow these with delivery. This defining year for the UK’s climate credentials has been marred by uncertainty and delay to a host of new climate strategies. Those that have emerged have too often missed the mark. With every month of inaction, it is harder for the UK to get on track.
Progress on Net Zero
Baroness Brown, Chair of the Adaptation Committee said:
“The severity of the risks we face must not be underestimated. These risks will not disappear as the world moves to Net Zero; many of them are already locked in. By better understanding and preparing for the coming changes, the UK can prosper, protecting its people, its economy, and its natural environment. A detailed, effective action plan that prepares the UK for climate change is now essential and needed urgently.”
https://www.theccc.org.uk/2021/06/16/uk-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-climate-change-impacts/
Lockdown measures led to a record decrease in UK emissions in 2020 of 13% from the previous year. Sustained reductions in emissions require sustained Government leadership, underpinned by a strong Net Zero Strategy:
A Net Zero Test would ensure that all Government policy, including planning decisions, is compatible with UK climate targets.
An ambitious Heat and Buildings Strategy, that works for consumers, is urgently needed.
Delayed plans on surface transport, aviation, hydrogen, biomass and food must be delivered.
Plans for the power sector, industrial decarbonisation, the North Sea, peat and energy from waste must be strengthened.
The big cross-cutting challenges of public engagement, fair funding and local delivery must be tackled.
Reducing emissions in Wales: progress report 2020 published march 2021.
Reducing emissions in Wales: Welsh Government response June 2021.
