Carbon Budgets
Commons · Question 116368 · Tabled 26 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how he plans to (a) embed climate adaptation and (b) integrate steps to mitigate and adapt within the seventh carbon budget.
Answer
Answered by Katie White, 4 Mar 2026
The Climate Change Act (2008) sets out how government must consider both adaptation and mitigation when designing the pathway to net zero by 2050, through Climate Change Risk Assessments, National Adaptation Programmes and when setting Carbon Budgets. As ...