We are open for comments on the UK’s 7th Carbon Budget

The UK’s 7th Carbon Budget, covering the period 2038-2042, was published on 27 February by the independent Climate Change Committee. See here. The overall budget is in Figure 1. There is a wealth of sectoral detail, as laid out in the Table of Contents, reproduced below.

No chat from us at this point, but the website is open for comments, either on the budget document itself, or on the implications for Brighton and Hove. Does the budget make sense? Is it feasible/sensible in the sectors you know about? And what does it mean for Brighton and Hove, especially taking account of our own objectives and decarbonisation pathways?

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Thank you in advance for contributing.

Simon Maxwell

• Executive summary

• Chapter 1: Climate change and emissions

• 1.1 Climate change and emissions globally

• 1.2 Climate change and emissions in the UK

• Chapter 2: Developing a pathway to Net Zero and the Seventh Carbon Budget

• 2.1 Baseline emissions with no further decarbonisation action

• 2.2 Developing our Balanced Pathway

• 2.3 Roll-out of low-carbon technologies and land-based actions

• 2.4 Reducing demand for high-carbon activities

• Chapter 3: The Balanced Pathway

• 3.1 Emissions in the Balanced Pathway

• 3.2 Drivers of emissions reduction in the Balanced Pathway

• 3.3 The Balanced Pathway during the Seventh Carbon Budget period and beyond

• 3.4 Emissions in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

• Chapter 4: Costs and investment in the Balanced Pathway

• 4.1 Estimating costs in the Balanced Pathway

• 4.2 Costs in the Balanced Pathway

• 4.3 Fiscal impacts

• Chapter 5: Delivering the Seventh Carbon Budget

• 5.1 Delivery indicators in the Balanced Pathway

• 5.2 The role of markets, governments, and the public in delivering the transition

• 5.3 Integrating adaptation into Net Zero delivery

• 5.4 Key actions

• Chapter 6: Uncertainty and contingency

• 6.1 Our approach to uncertainty analysis

• 6.2 Long-term uncertainties

• 6.3 Short-term uncertainties

• 6.4 Contingency actions and options to go further

• Chapter 7: The Balanced Pathway by sector

• 7.1 Surface transport

• 7.2 Residential buildings

• 7.3 Industry

• 7.4 Agriculture and land use

• 7.5 Electricity supply

• 7.6 Aviation

• 7.7 Fuel supply

• 7.8 Waste

• 7.9 Non-residential buildings

• 7.10 Shipping

• 7.11 F-gases

• 7.12 Engineered removals

• Chapter 8: Households

• 8.1 Household low-carbon choices

• 8.2 Citizens’ panel

• 8.3 Distributional impacts

• 8.4 Wider costs and benefits

• 8.5 Impacts on protected and vulnerable groups

• Chapter 9: Economy, businesses, and workers

• 9.1 Economy-wide impacts

• 9.2 Sectoral assessment

• Chapter 10: International implications and energy security

• 10.1 How the Balanced Pathway fits in an international context

• 10.2 The energy system and UK energy security

• 10.3 Imported emissions

Annex 1: Priority recommendations