Carbon Emissions

Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 10 October 2011.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Peter Aldous Peter Aldous Conservative, Waveney

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what measures relating to tackling the UK's outsourced emissions will be included in his Department's updated Carbon Plan.

Photo of Gregory Barker Gregory Barker The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change

The Department's updated Carbon Plan will focus on territorial emissions (including the effect of the EU Emissions Trading System), in line with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting framework and our reporting requirements under the Climate Change Act 2008.

We recognise the importance of tackling outsourced emissions if we are successfully to deliver our climate change objectives. We are therefore working hard to secure an international agreement with commitments from all key countries to reduce emissions, which is the most direct way to reduce all emissions, including those related to consumption.

Does this answer the above question?

Yes2 people think so

No5 people think not

Would you like to ask a question like this yourself? Use our Freedom of Information site.

Secretary of State

Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.