Climate Change Committee sets out seventh carbon budget

AirportsUK speaks on CCC seventh carbon budget - Regional Gateway

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published its seventh carbon budget, with the target being to reduce emissions by 87 per cent compared to 1990 by 2040. Under the seventh Balanced Pathway, CCC estimates that aviation emissions can fall by 17 per cent, relative to 2023, by 2040, by adopting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and electric/hybrid-electric aircraft, improving operational efficiencies, managing growth in aviation demand, and payin…

Climate Change Committee sets ‘ambitious’ UK carbon target for 2040

ELECTRIC vehicles (EVs), carbon capture, and hydrogen take centre stage in the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) seventh carbon budget, which aims to reduce UK emissions by 87% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2040.

Delivering the UK’s carbon targets by 2050 will involve structural shifts in the UK economy – and public policy has an essential role to play - Cambridge Econometrics

Deputy CEO Jon Stenning shares his expert reflections on the UK’s Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget. Yesterday, the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) released their 7th Carbon Budget Report, setting out an emissions target for 2038 to 2042, and recommendations to get there. It demonstrates the scale of change needed across energy generation, major energy consuming technologies, and the choices made by households and businesses t…

Mixed response to the CCC's 7th Carbon Budget

The country’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), have presented a new pathway to a decarbonised UK.

Climate Change Committee sets out seventh carbon budget

The budget sets out plans to ramp up heat pump installation, with other measures geared towards decarbonising homes The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) seventh carbon budget demonstrates its recommended routes to decarbonisation. The Balanced Pathway predicts that half of homes in the UK will be heated by a heat pump by 2040. Only 1% of UK homes were heated by heat pump in 2023 The budget, therefore, calls for the annual rate of heat pump insta…