This represent’s Sandbag’s submission to the Climate Change Committee’s Call for Evidence regarding the 5th Carbon Budget. In light of new developments in the EU ETS, Sandbag leads with the recommendation that the UK budgets should shift to full territorial emissions accounting. This should replace the current system which “nets off” traded sector emisisons against estimated UK allocations in the EU ETS. We also urge the Committee to revise its global “climate objective” to reflect a likely chance of avoiding 2 degrees that is more consistent with the UK’s international pledges.
