Environmental Audit Committee
Inquiry into: The role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change
Date of announcement: 28 January 2009
The main contact for this inquiry is Gordon Clarke, Clerk of the Committee. Tel: 020 7219 0248
Email: clarkeg@parliament.uk
This inquiry will examine the role of emissions trading in delivering the kinds of emissions reductions required to stabilise greenhouse gases at a 'safe' level.
The inquiry will consider:
the progress made in Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and prospects for Phase III;
the development of emissions tradingboth cap-and-trade and offset schemesin other countries (principally the United States), and the practicalities of linking them together; and
the principles that should govern the relationship of emissions trading to UK carbon budgets (notably how the use of credits should be accounted for in national emissions figures).
Terms of Reference
Please note oral evidence is now concluded
Written Evidence received
Oral Evidence transcripts
Webcasting of oral evidence sessions from www.parliamentlive.tv
31 March 2009
21 April 2009
28 April 2009
12 May 2009
2 June 2009
Report
Government Response (published as Command Paper Cm 7933)