Carbon Budgets

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 21st February 2022

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

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