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1702517

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	22813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The UK is the first major economy to halve its emissions – having cut them by around 53% between 1990 and 2023. We have the most ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target of any major economy.</p><p> </p><p>The UK over-achieved against the first, second and third carbon budgets. Taken together, the policies set out in last year’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan keep us on track for Carbon Budgets 4, 5 and 6, our 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution, and ultimately for net zero by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>Renewables, which have increased from 7% in 2010 to nearly half of our electricity generation, will help ensure our energy security – providing homegrown energy, and reducing our exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets. The UK is home to the five largest operational offshore wind farm projects in the world and no country has built more offshore wind than the UK bar China.</p> answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1684224

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	10900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>On 26 October the Government published its response to the Climate Change Committee 2023 Progress Report. In the response, the Government demonstrates the actions it is taking and responds to all 300 of the Committee’s recommendations.</p> answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1681722

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government funds research to provide evidence to support the development of energy, climate change, and green growth policies. This research is competitively tendered and is delivered typically by academic institutions, consultancies, SMEs, or a combination.</p> answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1681158

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	8906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The UK reports every two years on progress towards its international targets and on international climate finance to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UK will report under the Enhanced Transparency Framework, part of the Paris Agreement which comes into force this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continuously reviews delivery of the UK’s domestic and international climate strategy and commitments at Cabinet level, including through the Domestic and Economic Affairs (Energy, Climate and Net Zero) Committee, chaired by my Rt Hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister.</p> answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1679104

	answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer of 16 February 2022, Official Report, PQ 120718.</p> answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1675012

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government has not made a specific assessment of the World Climate Declaration but uses a range of scientific evidence to inform government policy, in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is the global authority on climate science.</p> answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1674459

	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>As the OBR noted in its July 2021 Fiscal Risks Report, “the costs of failing to get climate change under control would be much larger than those of bringing emissions down to net zero”. The OBR’s unmitigated warming scenario showed debt spiralling up to over 130 per cent of UK GDP by 2050 and around 290 per cent by the end of the century as a result of the cost of adapting to an ever hotter climate.</p> answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1673210

	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The UK delivery plan for the Fairwater Footprints (FWF) programme will improve the governance of water in supply chains. Already FWF is shaping new investment in collective water action in over 60 UK food and drink retailers in water-scarce regions of Peru, Kenya and Morocco, reforming procurement, regulation and investment policy in Panama, Madagascar, Finland and the Netherlands, and strengthening the voice of vulnerable communities in Malawi. In March 2023 the UK announced £1 million to design the flagship Just Transitions for Water Security programme to support the FWF alongside two other COP26 initiatives: the Water Tracker and the Resilient Water Accelerator.</p> answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1671250

	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government published its Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) (see attached) in July 2023. This marked a step-change in the Government’s approach to climate adaptation, putting in place an ambitious programme of decisive action for the next 5 years to address each of the 61 climate risks and opportunities in its Third Climate Change Risk Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>NAP3 builds on our work already underway to provide an improved and more resilient infrastructure, greener economy, and sustainable food production.  For example, we are responding to environmental threats to domestic food production through our Environmental Land Management farming schemes, protecting hundreds of thousands of homes with a record-breaking £5.2 billion investment in flood and coastal schemes, and safeguarding future water supplies by working with regulators to accelerate £2.2 billion of investment through our ambitious Plan for Water.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to monitor its progress on adapting to climate change both internally through a new, senior officials Climate Resilience Board, and externally by the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) reports to Parliament. The Government published its response to the CCC’s latest report in October 2023.</p> answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1661210

	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	200047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government uses cutting-edge science, including advances in climate modelling and projections, to inform and prepare our response to rising sea levels. The Government continues to work closely with the Met Office to assess the science of sea-level rise as part of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, including examining the implications of the latest IPCC's 6<sup>th</sup> assessment report (AR6). This includes the outcome of significant ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland.</p><p> </p><p>Our long-term policy statement sets out our ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk. It includes five ambitious policies and over 40 supporting actions we will take to accelerate progress to better protect and prepare the country against flooding and coastal erosion from more frequent extreme weather as a result of climate change.</p><p> </p> answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell