The Climate Change Committee (CCC), has offered advice on the level of the country’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UK Government, at the request of Secretary of State for Energy, Ed Miliband.
The CCC is recommending that the UK’s NDC commits to reduce territorial greenhouse gas emissions by 81% from 1990 to 2035. This is based on the CCC’s advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget, due to be published in February 2025. It is informed by the latest science, technological developments, and the UK’s national circumstances.
The CCC is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008.
Professor Piers Forster, interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee, said:
“With climate damages already felt around the world, targeting an 81% emissions reduction by 2035 sets the right level of ambition. Our analysis shows this can be achieved in a way that benefits jobs and the economy, provided we hit the country’s 2030 target – set in line with the CCC’s advice in 2020.
“The technologies needed to achieve it are available, at a competitive price, today. Investment in low carbon technologies – electric vehicles, heat pumps, and renewables – needs to come now for this target to be achievable. Businesses will start to invest when they have confidence in what the Government’s long term policy plans are. We need to see the Government’s commitment to climate reflected in the upcoming Budget.”
“More than any commitment, what we really need is action. I have no doubt that the United Kingdom can once again be a leader on the international stage – in both deeds and words.”
The CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget published in 2020 includes the year 2035. The emissions reduction in the Sixth Carbon Budget for 2035 is 78% against 1990 levels.
Tthe CCC said the advice on the 2035 NDC is informed by the latest science, as required by the UNFCCC and the recommended 81% is consistent with the ambition legislated in the Sixth Carbon Budget.
The letter says:
"It is ambitious, deliverable, and consistent with the emissions reduction required to meet the UK’s legally binding Sixth Carbon Budget ( 2033 to 2037)."
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