Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 2
2
Deferred
Commission and support research into aviation's total environmental effects for net zero strategy
Conclusion
We consider that any strategy designed to reduce the impact of UK aviation activity on global warming ought to encompass the environmental effects of aviation in their entirety. We therefore recommend that the Government actively commission, promote and support research into the total environmental effects of aviation, with a view to incorporating the emerging consensus into all future iterations of its strategy for net zero aviation. (Paragraph 31) Aviation emissions in the UK’s carbon budgets
Government Response Summary
The government notes the recommendation but responds by stating it will include international aviation and shipping emissions in the Sixth Carbon Budget, legislating for this at the earliest opportunity, rather than committing to actively commissioning and supporting broader research into aviation's total environmental effects.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The Government notes this recommendation. Government has followed the latest advice of the CCC and will include international aviation and shipping emissions (IAS) emissions in the Sixth Carbon Budget. This change allows for them to be accounted for consistently with other emissions as we approach our whole-economy net zero target for 2050. The Government will legislate for the inclusion of International Aviation and Shipping emissions in the Sixth Carbon Budget at the earliest opportunity, subject to Parliamentary scheduling.