Regulation
Climate Change Act
On 26th November 2008, the UK passed the Climate Change Act, setting the world’s most ambitious national targets for emissions cuts: an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as compared with 1990. Future UK governments will be held accountable under the Act for successive five-yearly ‘carbon budgets’, starting with 2008-2012, and can be taken to judicial review if their policies don’t match up. Read more.