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...
This brief note responds to the Department of Energy & Climate Change consultation on Implementing the Emissions Performance Standard on electricity generation in the UK. Sandbag continues to believe the EPS, though welcome, does not go far enough to signal the...
The UK government is currently (October 2014) consulting on next steps for Carbon Capture & Storage in the UK, and Sandbag has responded. Though a regulatory framework has begun to mature, progress on commercial-level CCS has been disappointing, with the UK yet to...
The UK government is examining the EU’s competence (power to act), in balance with the UK government. Sandbag’s evidence regarding the environment and climate change sector is available here; the government’s full report will be published in December...
In this written evidence submitted to the EAC, Sandbag argues that the UK government has no basis to weaken the 4th carbon budget, and on the contrary should look to strengthen it. We highlight that EU ambition for the relevant period (2023-2027) has not yet been...
