{"id":30260,"date":"2018-04-05T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=30260"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:30:10","slug":"10-years-uk-climate-change-act-summary","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/10-years-uk-climate-change-act-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of the UK Climate Change Act &#8211; Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>This policy brief summarises a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/10-years-climate-change-act\/\">longer policy report<\/a> (43pp), published on 1 April 2018.<\/p>\n<h2>Headline issues<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The experience of the UK&rsquo;s Climate Change Act provides lessons for climate law-making that apply internationally.<\/li>\n<li>The Climate Change Act has been instrumental in advancing climate action over the past decade but reform will be needed if the UK is to meet its international climate obligations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A comprehensive framework law is an essential tool for coordinating action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase resilience.<\/strong> A good climate law contains statutory targets, assigns clear duties and responsibilities and provides clarity about the long-term direction of travel. Economy-wide, multi-year targets, set well in advance, help to define a clear yet flexible path towards the long-term climate objective. A strong independent body is critically important to ensure consistent policy delivery and evidence-based decision-making.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the UK the introduction of the Act and its carbon budgets has helped to reduce emissions, particularly in the power sector, while the economy has continued to grow.<\/strong> Although the Act is technically consistent with the Paris Agreement, it will probably need supplementing by 2020, for instance by including a target for achieving &lsquo;net zero&rsquo; emissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New safeguards are needed to strengthen the ability to hold the UK government to account,<\/strong> for example by creating a statutory response time for the government to publish its carbon plans. All parts of government must be fully committed to implementation of the Act as the UK moves into a more challenging phase of emissions reductions.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>This policy brief is a condensed version of our report on the Climate Change Act, summarising lessons for the UK and other countries, on how climate change legislation is best structured to be effective.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[174,190,1087,447,1134,517,264,986,1133,437],"publication-type":[1682],"topic_area":[4692,4783,4694,4695,4696],"class_list":["post-30260","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","tag-adaptation","tag-carbon-budget","tag-climate-change-act","tag-climate-resilience-and-adaptation","tag-emissions-reduction","tag-implementing-the-paris-agreement","tag-legislation","tag-ndcs","tag-net-zero","tag-uk","publication-type-policy-publications","topic_area-adaptation-and-resilience","topic_area-uk-adaptation-policy","topic_area-policy-evaluation","topic_area-climate-change-laws-and-litigation","topic_area-uk-emissions-policy"],"acf":{"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":["https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/10-years-of-UK-Climate-Change-Act-Summary-Policy-Brief.pdf"],"type":"download","post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["samuel-fankhauser","alina-averchenkova","jared-j-finnegan"],"type":"relationship","post_type":"profile"},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"show_translations_widget":{"ref_value":"field_6203d588c41e8","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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