Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what, if any, advice have they received from the Chief Scientific Adviser about the implications of increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on a warming planet, in light of the highest recorded concentration of 419 parts per million at the Mauna Loa Observatory in 2021.

Both the Government and its Chief Scientific Advisors are informed by the latest scientific evidence, as presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Panel’s reports set out in detail how, as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere rise, global temperatures are also expected to rise, with severe impacts to people and nature.