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Recommendation 10
10
Publish in-depth annual review of Defence climate performance and explain reporting discrepancies.
Recommendation
The Ministry of Defence should return to publishing a more in-depth, stand-alone annual review of its climate and sustainability performance, with independent verification of emissions measuring and reporting. It should commission work to better understand total defence carbon emissions. It should also explain the apparent discrepancy in reporting overall emission figures in 2019–20 and again in 2020–21, and then reporting those same (now historic) figures again in the 2021–22 Annual Report but with values that have increased by over 40%. (Paragraph 67) Defence’s contribution to ‘net zero’
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 8 November 2023. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗