Sentences with phrase «decarbonisation target»

A new Tory - Liberal Democrat flashpoint has emerged with senior Liberal Democrats revealing their intention to join a cross-party rebellion to demand a quickly established decarbonisation target for the power sector.
Until that point, those attempting to set and calculate decarbonisation targets in line with the Paris Agreement must choose one pre-industrial level and work from there.
Liberal Democrat whips are facing the prospect of a potential rebellion tonight over the energy bill's missing decarbonisation target.
The party said a 2030 decarbonisation target supported by Labour would mean a rise of that scale over the next 17 years.
Farron's move in a letter to a constituent released at the weekend came as the IPPR thinktank published new research showing the proposed decarbonisation target need not increase energy prices, and the government's alternative of relying on gas will boost bills by as much as # 15.
Politicians from all parties should stop delaying and commit to a 2030 decarbonisation target now to ensure the UK stays on track.
So we have also committed to set a 2030 power sector decarbonisation target; hold to the system of contract for difference in the energy bill; create an Energy Security Board with responsibility for identifying our energy needs and providing a clear framework to deliver this; and give the Green Investment Bank borrowing powers to support investment.»
The tool demonstrates that different energy scenarios with the same decarbonisation target can make a difference of 108,000 tons in annual air pollutant emissions or 1.2 million acres of land use; an area about twice the size as the country Luxembourg.
No credible scenario» exists for hitting the UK's 2050 decarbonisation targets without continued reliance on gas, the National Grid has warned.
Take Yeo's contribution to the energy bill debate last week, when he led a rebellion against the government's refusal to include a 2030 decarbonisation target in the legislation.
Liberal Democrat whips are facing the prospect of a potential rebellion over the energy bill's missing decarbonisation target.
The government should be legislating now in the Energy Bill for a decarbonisation target for 2030 in order to give a framework for those seeking to invest in renewable, nuclear, and clean gas and coal technology.
In June 2013, Conservative MP Tim Yeo and Barry Gardiner jointly tabled an amendment to the UK Energy Bill which proposed establishing by 2014 a decarbonisation target for the UK's electricity generating sector, to be achieved by 2030.
Yeo is not surprised the chancellor's deal with the Lib Dems did not feature the decarbonisation target he and his energy and climate change committee has called for.
Yeo is addressing the main governmental argument against his call for a decarbonisation target (that it would knock investor confidence).
He has more sympathy with the Lib Dems, who voted for the inclusion of a decarbonisation target for 2030 in their autumn conference last year but were then confronted with the coalition's compromise only a couple of months later.
We will legislate for a decarbonisation target for 2030 and unlock billions of pounds in new investment in renewables, nuclear and clean gas and coal technology.
A «wholesale transformation of the energy system» is required, the report says, and given the scale and complexity of the change a decarbonisation target should be included in the energy bill to provide a policy commitment for the investors who will need to provide the capital for the development of new technologies.
Labour have undermined what was their one and only green pledge — a decarbonisation target — with a policy that would damage the very industry needed to deliver it.
«I call on every Lib Dem who supports a low carbon future to join Labour, businesses and environmental groups and vote for a 2030 decarbonisation target,» he said.
In the run - up to this week's voting 11 Lib Dem backbenchers have signalled their readiness to vote against the government in a crunch amendment tabled by Tim Yeo, the Conservative chair of the energy and climate change committee, calling for the inclusion of a decarbonisation target.
In return the government deal has seen the Lib Dems abandon their party policy to secure a decarbonisation target for 2030.
Like the Labour party, Lib Dems have done the right thing by promising a 2030 «decarbonisation target» (even though they voted against it in the 2013 Energy Bill) and pledging to ditch dirty coal.
Campaigners have expressed frustration that the Lib Dems are not prepared to push ahead with the decarbonisation target.
The party's leadership had endorsed its support for a decarbonisation target during last autumn's Brighton conference.
It's no wonder that support continues to gather for the set of amendments tabled by Conservative chair of the energy and climate change select committee and MP for South Suffolk, Tim Yeo, and his colleague Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, to introduce a decarbonisation target and a plan to achieve it.
In 2016, a potential investor will look at a landscape in which they have a guaranteed price for their energy (under the Contract for Difference arrangements), a 2030 decarbonisation target to minimise the political risk, a new, more robust regulator and a newly transparent and liquid wholesale market.
Instead of a target, the energy bill includes a clause that would require the government to make a decision on whether or not to set a decarbonisation target in 2016 at the same time as binding emission targets are set for 2030 through the next carbon budget.
Last year's Lib Dem conference under the leadership of the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, overwhelmingly backed the setting of a decarbonisation target, but the energy secretary, Ed Davey, was forced to defer the proposal as part of his wider negotiations over green energy, including a # 7.6bn - per - year Treasury commitment to provide green subsidies.
MPs have an historic chance to deliver that certainty in the form of a decarbonisation target to be set by 2014.
Also, Eastleigh MP Mike Thornton is planning to vote for a decarbonisation target *
Also, Eastleigh MP Mike Thornton is planning to vote for a decarbonisation target * As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all...
Just last week the CCC estimated that, as well as undermining efforts to tackle climate change, George Osborne's «dash for gas» would add at a minimum an extra # 25 billion to energy bills, compared to a future powered by home - grown renewables that would be the inevitable consequence of a decarbonisation target.
Adding a decarbonisation target would clearly be good for growth, jobs and household energy bills.
Much has been made of the need for a decarbonisation target, a measure that, if included in the Energy Bill, would drive investment to slash the carbon intensity of UK electricity production by 2030, bringing with it huge jobs and growth benefits to many corners of the UK.
We will legislate for a 2030 decarbonisation target.
Continue reading «Charles Hendry MP: Why we shouldn't put a decarbonisation target in the Energy Bill this week»»
The 2030 decarbonisation target was high on the list of priorities for 44 %.
In the confines of a Manchester convention centre, the shadow cabinet confidently outlined Labour's new plan to get the UK's energy efficiency schemes working, promised to put a decarbonisation target into law, and generally skirted the issue of whether freezing energy prices would be good for emissions.
If full implementation of the FQD does not go ahead and large volumes of tar sands flood into Europe, the study concludes that the FQD's decarbonisation target will be much more difficult to achieve.
Ofgem's E-Serve division focuses on delivering the government's consumer and environmental schemes, as well as renewables and energy efficiency to help meet the government's decarbonisation targets.
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