Recommendation 16

We encourage our successor committee to continue to monitor all three strands of the Joint Budget Review over the coming session, and where necessary press for their roll-out. All three have the potential to add value, in terms of understanding whether budget choices are consistent with climate change goals. The strands are at different stages of development, with the climate narrative strand the most developed and Net Zero Assessment the least. The Net Zero Assessment strand is the most significant, in its capacity to improve the mechanics of actual government decision-taking relevant to climate change upstream of determining what specific interventions to make. Only in the coming Parliamentary session will it be possible to begin drawing conclusions about all of this, and only if all three strands continue to be developed and become a mainstream part of budget planning in the manner indicated in the final JBR report.