Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 9
Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now?
Published 8 Jul 2021
Paragraph 51
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government must ensure that the rationale behind the route to net zero is made clear and is transparent. This is key to earning the trust of both business and citizens, which would, in turn incite positive action across the population. We recommend that the Net Zero Strategy include specific timelines for the implementation of specific policies through to 2050 in order to prepare business, supply chains, and citizens for the changes that will come with achieving net zero. Where there is uncertainty in relation to the implementation of future policies, the Government should provide the dates by which decisions must be made.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Second Report - Climate Assembly UK: where are we now? (HC 546), paragraph 51, 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".