Development of Global Emissions and Climate Change Indicators Project

The Climate Change Act 2008 created a legally-binding long-term framework for the UK to cut carbon emissions and to manage climate risks. It also created the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) as the independent expert body, to provide advice to the UK Government and the devolved administrations on setting and achieving emissions reduction goals through to 2050, and how the UK can adapt to the impacts of climate change. As part of the Chinese President’s State Visit to the UK in 2015, the UK Secretary of State for...