The Carbon Budget Order 2016

Made: 20th July 2016

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 2016 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Carbon budget

2

The carbon budget for the 2028–2032 budgetary period is 1,725,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Signed

Neville-Rolfe — Minister of State — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy — 20th July 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order sets the carbon budget for the 2028–2032 budgetary period (1,725 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 effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW and published with its Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument on 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).