Climate Change Act 2008

The Climate Change Act 2008 has been created to:

• Set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of targeted greenhouse gas emissions
• Provide for a system of carbon budgeting
• Establish a Committee on Climate Change
• Confer powers to establish trading schemes for the purpose of limiting greenhouse gas emissions or encouraging activities that reduce such emissions or remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere
• Make provision about adaptation to climate change
• Confer powers to make schemes for providing financial incentives to produce less domestic waste and to recycle more of what is produced
• Make provision about the collection of household waste
• Confer powers to make provision about charging for single use carrier bags
• Amend the provisions of the Energy Act 2004 about renewable transport fuel obligations
• Make provision about carbon emissions reduction targets
• Make other provision about climate change and for connected purposes

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