Committee on Climate Change

Supporting Research for Building a low-carbon economy – the UK’s contribution to tackling climate change – December 2008

The CCC commissioned research from a number of consultants to inform its advice on carbon budgets and targets. Consultant's reports are listed below according to the chapter that they support and can be accessed and downloaded by clicking on the relevant link.

Chapter 1: Setting a 2050 Target

• Simon Dietz (2008) A long-run target for climate policy: the Stern Review and its Critics

• AEA (2008) MARKAL-MED model runs of long term carbon reduction targets in the UK (1)
• AEA (2008) MARKAL-MED model runs of long term carbon reduction targets in the UK (2)
• Neil Strachan (2008) Peer Review of MARKAL-MED model runs of long term carbon reduction targets in the UK (1)
• Neil Strachan (2008) Peer Review of MARKAL-MED model runs of long term carbon reduction targets in the UK (2)

Chapter 3: Decarbonising eletricity generation

• Oxford Economics (2008) Review of the BERR Energy Demand Model
• Oxford Economics (2008) Estimation of households demand for gas and electricity
• Oxford Economics (2008) Re-estimation of the BERR Energy Demand Model industry equations
• Paul Watkiss Associates (2008) Review of Methodological Approaches for Setting UK Carbon Budgets.
• Paul Watkiss Associates (2008) Review of Methodological Approaches for Setting UK Carbon Budgets: APPENDICES

Chapter 6: Energy use in buildings and industry

• BRE (2008) MAC Curves for the Domestic and Non-Domestic Building Sectors - Technical Documentation
• AEA (2008) Review and update of UK abatement cost curves for the industrial, domestic and non-domestic sectors

Chapter 7: Reducing domestic transport emissions

• Rail Carbon Trajectory Working Group (May 2008) Rail Transport submission to the CCC.
• Alan McKinnon (Feb 2008) Advice on CO^₂ Emissions from the UK Freight Transport Sector.
• David Banister (2007) Land Use, Planning and Infrastructure Issues in Transport.
• Phil Goodwin (2007) Carbon Abatement in Transport, Review of Demand Responses.

Chapter 8: International Aviation & Shipping

• QinetiQ (October 2008) Aviation CO^₂ Emissions Abatement Potential from Technology Innovation
• AEA (September 2008) Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping: trends, projections and abatement potential

Chapter 9: Non-CO2 Gases

• Scottish Agricultural College (2008) UK Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for the Agriculture and Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry Sectors out to 2022, with Qualitative Analysis of Options to 2050.
• Eunomia (2008), Development of marginal abatement cost curves for the waste sector

Chapter 11: Economic costs and fiscal implications

• Christopher Pissarides (2008) Assessment of macroeconomic transmission mechanisms and modelling options for carbon constraints through the UK economy
  
• Cambridge Econometrics (2008) Projections of UK CO^₂ emissions and assessment of the economic impacts of carbon budgets
  
• BRE (2008) Potential effects of the CCC’s proposed carbon budgets on fuel poverty