2021 No. 750
The Carbon Budget Order 2021
Made
Coming into force
A draft of this instrument was laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, in accordance with sections 8(3) and 91(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008 (“the Act”)1.
Before the draft was so laid, the Secretary of State took into account—
the advice of the Committee on Climate Change under section 34 of the Act, in accordance with section 9(1)(a) of the Act; and
any representations made by the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, in accordance with section 9(1)(b) of the Act2.
This Order is made in accordance with the duty to set carbon budgets for budgetary periods imposed by sections 4(1)(a) and 8(1) of the Act, and is made with a view to—
meeting the target in section 1, and the requirements of section 5, of the Act3; and
complying with the European and international obligations of the United Kingdom.
The Secretary of State has taken into account the matters mentioned in section 10(2) of the Act.
Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the Act, makes the following Order:
Citation and coming into force1
This Order may be cited as the Carbon Budget Order 2021 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Carbon budget2
The carbon budget for the 2033-2037 budgetary period is 965,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent4.
(This note is not part of the Order)