UK

A very happy new year from the CCC. In 2018 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Climate Change Act, which established the Committee on Climate Change. As we enter our second decade, we’re in rude health. 2019 promises some of the most important work we’ve ever produced.

The UK Government has formally asked the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to prepare an independent Evidence Report to support the UK’s third comprehensive assessment of the risks and opportunities from climate change.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today welcomes news that the UK Government intends to help establish the UK’s first net zero carbon industrial cluster, backed up with £170 million of funding for research, development and deployment - although it urges an earlier target date.

Two members of the CCC’s Adaptation Committee, Rosalyn Schofield and Ece Ozdemiroglu, have been reappointed for a further three-year term.

This report summarises the responses received to a Call for Evidence the Committee on Climate Change ran in late 2017 and early 2018 to inform its 'Biomass in a low-carbon economy' report.

This report by JBA Consulting was produced to support the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) 2018 report on Biomass in a low-carbon economy report.

This technical annex, by Dr Jeanette Whitaker, was produced to support the Committee on Climate Change's 2018 report on the role of biomass in a low-carbon economy.

This report, by Professor Patricia Thornley, Director of the European Bioenergy Institute at Aston University, is the Chair's summary produced on behalf of the advisory board convened for the Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) Biomass in a low-carbon economy report.

Professor Piers Forster has been appointed to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) by the Secretary of State for Energy and Clean Growth, Claire Perry MP, and the devolved administrations.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) welcomes news that the Government plans to develop the UK’s first facility to capture, store and use carbon by the mid-2020s.