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The UK’s Climate Change Committee has slammed the government for its “hesitancy” and “inaction” on net zero over the past year, with progress falling behind in all but a few areas of the economy.
The CCC, which holds the government accountable for progress against the UK’s legally-binding climate commitments, delivered its annual Progress Report to Parliament at the end of June.
The 437-page report concludes that ministers have failed to deliver on any of the priority recommendations the CCC made last year. Confidence in the UK meeting its climate commitments from 2030 onwards is now “markedly less” than a year ago, the committee warned.
Although UK greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 46 per cent from 1990 levels, the annual rate of reduction must now quadruple if the UK is to meet its next milestone of a 68 per cent reduction by 2030.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the outgoing chair of the CCC, Conservative peer Lord Deben said: “The UK has lost its clear global climate leadership while game-changing interventions from the US and Europe, which will turbocharge growth of renewables, are leaving the UK behind."
“Our children will not forgive us if we leave them a world of withering heat and devastating storms where sea level rises and extreme temperatures force millions to move because their countries are no longer habitable. None of us can avoid our responsibility. Delay is not an option.”
The Progress Report finishes with 300 recommendations for action, a searchable list of which can be found on the CCC website.