Scrutinising the Climate Change Committee's emissions targets

While they welcome the Committee’s report as a step in the right direction, they demonstrate how it is based on highly optimistic assumptions and is in support of the UK buying over a quarter of its emissions reductions from poorer parts of the world and as much as 50% from the EU. They recommend that the Government maintains its leadership by aggressively pursuing domestic emission pathways in line with its 2°C commitment and that using offsets and buy-outs to meet targets now will lock the UK into carbon-intensive development, and make it far harder to develop a genuinely low carbon economy.