Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including emissions embedded in imports in the UK’s carbon budgets.
Carbon budgets are set and monitored in line with international carbon reporting practice, which is to measure emissions on a territorial basis.
The Climate Change Committee agrees with the use of territorial emissions for the Government’s emissions reduction targets. In its ‘Reducing UK Emissions - 2019 Progress Report to Parliament’, the Committee set out that territorial emissions are the standard accounting approach for measuring emissions internationally, as this approach avoids the risks that emissions are missed or double-counted