Government promises a comprehensive Net Zero Strategy in 2021

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The government published an extensive response to the Committee on Climate Change 2020 progress report on 15 October.

In it, the government makes a number of announcements:

Among its many statements of upcoming government policy actions is a promise to update the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy into a ‘comprehensive’ Net Zero Strategy in the run up to next year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
An enhanced UK Nationally Determined Contribution (a detailed climate action plan) will be published 'well ahead' of COP26.
In a significant reversal of previous inter-departmental government caution about the prospects for sustainable biomass resources, the report recognises that bioenergy will play a key role in attaining net zero, especially when coupled with carbon capture and storage to create greenhouse gas removals or ‘negative emissions’, and a new Bioenergy Strategy is promised by 2022.
A call for evidence on ‘negative emissions’ technologies will also be launched later this year, to focus on carbon pricing, design and governance.

♦ Click here to read the government's response in full

NFU members: Click here to read our brief analysis of its contents

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