The Queen’s Speeech and the Climate Change Bill
The Queen’s speech is now online here and the Climate Change Bill is on her list:
My Government will publish a Bill on climate change as part of its policy to protect the environment, consistent with the need to secure long-term energy supplies.
Other interesting bills include:
A draft Bill will be published to tackle road congestion and to improve public transport.
My Government will publish proposals to reform the planning system.
A copy of the Climate Change Bill as it currently stands can be found here (pdf). It sets out in schedule 2 the government targets relating to climate change:
- Domestic energy efficiency to improve by 20 per cent from 2010 levels by 2020.
- Non-domestic energy efficiency to improve by 7.9 MtC by 2010, and by a further 4.0 MtC by 2020.
- Ten per cent of electricity to be generated from renewable resources by 2010, and 20 per cent by 2020.
- The strategy published in pursuance of section 82 of the Energy Act 2004 (microgeneration) to be implemented.
- Ten gigawatts of combined heat and power to be generated by 2010.
- 5.75 per cent of transport fuel to be produced from renewable resources by 2010.
Green Building are reporting that FOE are happy with the intent of the Bill but that:
it must require annual cuts in UK carbon dioxide emissions.
All in all it is a victory for Friends of the Earth and the green lobby in general.
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