Her Majesty's Government

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)

Total Carbon Emissions:72 Mt CO2e (2020)

Unlocking new job opportunities through deployment of low carbon infrastructure in industrial areas
Support the skills transition so that the current and future workforce benefit from the creation of new jobs

The UK was the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming with our 2050 net zero target.

Long-term Goals:

Medium-term Goals:

Short-term Goals:

Many essential low carbon technologies are in earlier stages of development, and not yet deployed regularly at a commercial level.
Low carbon manufacturing will also be more expensive for some sectors, leading to an increase in their costs, and therefore risking a reduction in their competitiveness.
This creates a risk of “carbon leakage”, which could impact both our domestic and global climate goals.

Government intervention should focus on addressing market failures or barriers to decarbonisation.
Where decarbonisation leads to significant costs that creates carbon leakage risk, it should be supported by targeted intervention to mitigate this risk.
Government should play a key role in delivery of large infrastructure projects for key technologies (e.g. CCUS and hydrogen networks) where there is a shared benefit and the risk or cost is too great for the private sector.