Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 8
Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now?
Published 8 Jul 2021
Paragraph 46
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The upcoming Net Zero Review is critical in ensuring fairness across society in the transition to net zero. This should be published as a matter of priority to maximise the time available, both, to consult and engage the public and businesses. We recommend that BEIS work closely with HM Treasury to ensure that the Net Zero Review be published as soon as possible, and at the very latest, alongside the Net Zero Strategy, expected in September.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now? (HC 546), paragraph 46, 8 July 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 9 September 2021 (deadline 8 September 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government sets out its existing public engagement work and says it "plans to set out" its engagement approach in the Net Zero Strategy, without stating that it accepts the Committee's recommendations.
- On engagement, it points to the 'Together for our Planet' campaign and says it will work with young people, schools, civil society groups and businesses, "including those who are harder to reach".
- On Climate Assembly UK, it says the findings are "an important addition" to its evidence base and are informing the Net Zero Strategy; it says it responded to the major areas of the report, and further detail will come in the Net Zero Strategy "in due course".
- On the Net Zero Review, it says the final report will be published "in due course, and in advance of COP26".
- On timelines, it cites dates already set, such as ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, and says the Net Zero Strategy will be set out ahead of COP26 while "maintaining the flexibility to make strategic decisions".