Government Launches Low Carbon Transition Plan

The Government today published a Low Carbon Transition Plan (the Transition Plan), which sets out a route-map for the UK to meet its 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and expanding renewable energy. The plan also covers ways of maximising green economic opportunities. The aim of the Transition Plan is to enable the Government to deliver on the target to cut emissions by 80% by 2050 and a set of five-year "carbon budgets" to 2022, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008.

Key Proposals

The goal of the Transition Plan is to deliver emission cuts of 18% on 2008 levels by 2020 through the implementation of the following steps:

• Allocating carbon budgets to all major UK Government departments and requiring each department to produce its own plan.