PART 4Reports by Committee on Climate Change

Progress report after statement about emissions target for 2040

46.—(1) No later than six months after the Department lays the statement under section 41 for 2040 before the Assembly, the Committee on Climate Change must send a report to the Department setting out the Committee’s views on—

(a)whether the emissions targets for 2050 are the highest achievable targets,

(b)if either of them is not the highest achievable target—

(i)what is the highest achievable target, and

(ii)what further measures are needed to meet the highest achievable target.

(2) The Department must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving it.