Climate Change Committee: Carbon Budget Report

Lord Grantchester Excerpts

Tuesday 16th March 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

I certainly agree with the first part of my noble friend’s question about the need for trust and openness. The Government are currently examining how best to support the public in making green choices and adopting sustainable behaviours. This includes identifying information that people need and how it can best be communicated, and providing it in an accessible format.

[Lord Grantchester (Lab)]

My Lords, one year into the pandemic, what lessons have the Government learned to encourage behavioural change in relation to net zero, given that the Public Accounts Committee reports this month that the

“Government has not yet properly engaged with the public on the substantial behaviour changes that achieving net zero will require”,


via co-ordinated, cross-department, consistent messaging?