Recommendation 8

Alongside the draft Carbon Budget Order for the Seventh Carbon Budget, the Government should publish a clear, indicative, cross-governmental delivery framework. The framework should demonstrate how departmental policies will be aligned, mutually reinforcing and consistent with the emissions limits set by Parliament. This framework should: • set out the respective roles and responsibilities of relevant departments in delivering the carbon budget pathway; • be explicitly endorsed by the Prime Minister’s Office and HM Treasury to demonstrate collective ownership; • provide transparency on how cross-government governance arrangements will operate in practice to resolve policy conflicts and oversee delivery; and • set out clearly how delivery shortfalls will be identified, addressed and allocated across departments, including where responsibility lies for corrective action within the overall carbon budget framework. (Recommendation, Paragraph 51) 58