Sixth carbon budget

High Court gives government until Autumn to produce new UK climate plan

Politics

High Court gives government until Autumn to produce new UK climate plan

The government has been granted an additional six months to rewrite the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan that the High Court last year ruled was unlawful

clock 25 March 2025 • 4 min read
Net Zero Policy Tracker: Why is the UK 'significantly off track' to meet its climate goals?

Infrastructure

Net Zero Policy Tracker: Why is the UK 'significantly off track' to meet its climate goals?

New Green Alliance analysis claims only half the carbon emission reductions legally required by 2032 are backed by confirmed policies

clock 19 March 2024 • 10 min read
'Green Day': Government admits UK's climate policies still not on track to meet Sixth Carbon Budget

Politics

'Green Day': Government admits UK's climate policies still not on track to meet Sixth Carbon Budget

Carbon Budget Delivery Plan notes existing policies do not put UK fully on track to meet 2030s Carbon Budget, but insists upcoming measures can close emissions gap

clock 30 March 2023 • 5 min read
'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Policy

'Pie-in-the-sky approach': Net Zero Strategy taken to court by environmental groups

Separate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets

clock 12 January 2022 • 5 min read

Editor's Blog

Why the Sixth Carbon Budget is a BFD

The UK's world leading new carbon target for 2035 is worthy of celebration, but there are considerable caveats and growing fears about the government's 'magic decarbonisation tree'

clock 21 April 2021 • 5 min read

Policy

'Leading by example': Green economy welcomes stretching target to slash UK emissions 78 per cent by 2035

But big questions remain over how the UK will meet hugely ambitious new targets, after government signalled it will not sign off on all the CCC's policy recommendations

clock 20 April 2021 • 11 min read

Policy

Reports: UK to confirm strengthened carbon budget targets for 2035

Government expected to confirm ambitious new goals for early-2030s ahead of President Biden's high profile Leaders Summit

clock 20 April 2021 • 4 min read

Aviation

Government urged to factor aviation and shipping into UK climate goals

Coalition of green groups argue UK should set global precedent by including emissions generated by international travel in next carbon budget

clock 25 February 2021 • 4 min read

Editor's Blog

Writing the book on the net zero transition

The CCC's epic new report provides the blueprint for a net zero economy, the rationale for following it, and hints at the high drama that will define the century - it could prove to be a canonical document

clock 09 December 2020 • 9 min read

Net Zero Now

All the key recommendations from the CCC's Sixth Carbon Budget report: At a glance

BusinessGreen rounds up all the crucial findings in the Climate Change Committee's mammoth 450 page report on how to meet the UK's carbon targets

clock 09 December 2020 • 13 min read