1. Outline
This report presents the Committee on Climate Change’s advice on the fifth carbon budget (covering UK emissions reductions in the period 2028 to 2032).
2. Key recommendations
The main recommendations are to:
- set the fifth carbon budget at 1,765 MtCO2e, including emissions from international shipping
- limit annual emissions to an average 57% below 1990 levels
3. Reports
The Committee’s advice on the fifth carbon budget is accompanied by a technical report:
and two in-depth reports:
4. Fifth carbon budget advice - individual report chapters
- The fifth carbon budget – Executive summary
- Chapter 1 – Approach to setting the fifth carbon budget
- Chapter 2 – Overview of climate science and international circumstances
- Chapter 3 – The cost-effective path to 2050
- Chapter 4 – Wider economic and social circumstances
- Chapter 5 – Differences in national circumstances
- Chapter 6 – Budget recommendation
5. Supporting research
- An assessment of the potential for demand-side fuel savings in the HGV sector (CfSRF)
- Light duty vehicle cost (Ricardo Energy and Environment 2015)
- Value of flexibility in a decarbonised grid and system externalities of low-carbon generation technologies (Imperial College London)
- System integration costs for alternative low carbon generation technologies (Nera)
- Scenarios for deployment of hydrogen in meeting carbon budgets (E4tech)
- Research on district heating and local approaches to heat decarbonisation (Element Energy)
- Quantifying uncertainty in baseline emissions projections (Cambridge Econometrics 2015)
- Review and update of the UK agriculture marginal abatement cost curves (SRUC, Ricardo Energy)
6. Charts and data
7. Responses to call for data
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