United Kingdom
Climate targets: Environment
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By 2032, reduce up to 230Mt Co2 across power, buildings and industry and create jobs 220,000 jobs.Source:
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By 2030, the CCUS will aim to capture 10Mt of carbon dioxide a year.Source:
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By 2023, the HSE to enable up to 20% hydrogen blending on the network.Source:
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By 2024/5, the government to provide £240M for the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.Source:
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By 2030, deliver the ambition for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacitySource:
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By 2030, £2-3Bn to be invested in carbon storage technology.Source:
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By 2025, OGCI to meet 0.25-0.2% methane intensity commitment.Source:
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By 2030, four clusters will be formed for carbon capture.Source:
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By 2030, 50% reduction from 2018 emission levels.Source:
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By 2030, achieve a 60Mt reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.Source:
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By 2025, a Hydrogen Neighbourhood village will be trialing.Source:
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By 2050, zero avoidable waste materials.
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By 2024, ensure that each carbon unit credited to the net UK carbon account is cancelled.
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From 2021-2025, over the four years, BEIS will provide the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence with £2M to fund offshore wind projects.Source:
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By 2040, the first net zero cluster to be developed.
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By 2030, two more carbon capture clusters.
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By 2025, build two carbon capture clusters.
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By 2030, 20 TWH of fossil fuels to be replaced with renewables.
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By 2050, emissions to be reduced by 90% since 2018 level.
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By 2035, emissions to be reduced by two thirds.
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£5Bn to be invested in the next five years to transform bus services and cycling infrastructure.Source:
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By 2027, plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year in the UK.Source:
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Between 2022-2024, 10 long term Landscape Recover projects will be initiated.Source:
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By 2027, there will be £5.2Bn investment over the period of 2021-2027 for flood and coastal defences.Source:
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By 2030, the National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will be key in meeting the Government's commitment to protect and improve 30% of UK land.Source:
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Reduce UK emissions by 180M T of carbon dioxide between 2023 and 2032.Source:
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By 2050, 83% of the $13.3T of the investment in electricity systems to be in zero-carbon technologies.Source:
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£40M to be invested into the courts and tribunal estate to aid environmental sustainability cases.Source:
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£100M invested into the research and development of Direct Air Capture.Source:
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£40M will be invested by the government into the Green Jobs Challenge Fund to create and protect 5,000 jobs involved with the natural environment.Source:
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By 2050, net UK carbon account is targeted to be 100% lower than 1990 baseline level targets.Source:
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For further analysis of the NDC, see United Kingdom country profile on
from the Grantham Research Institute
from the Grantham Research Institute
