The Carbon Budget Order 2011

Made: 29th June 2011

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

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 force

1

This Order may be cited as the Carbon Budget Order 2011 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Carbon budget

2

The carbon budget for the 2023–2027 budgetary period is 1,950,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Signed

Greg Barker — Minister of State — Department of Energy and Climate Change — 29th June 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order sets the carbon budget for the 2023–2027 budgetary period (1,950 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent). Carbon budgets set a cap on the maximum level of the net UK carbon account for each five-year budgetary period. The net UK carbon account is defined in section 27 of the Climate Change Act 2008.

A full impact assessment of the costs and benefits of this instrument is available at the website of the Department of Energy and Climate Change: www.decc.gov.uk, and it is also published alongside the instrument and its Explanatory Memorandum on the legislation website of The National Archives (http://www.legislation.gov.uk).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c.27.

[^f00002]: See the definitions of “national authority” and “the relevant Northern Ireland department” in sections 95 and 96.

[^f00003]: Section 5 is amended by the Climate Change Act 2008 (2020 Target, Credit Limit and Definitions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1258).