Professor Alan Barrett:

I will add to that as I made the point about the projections when we see that the economic growth will be linked to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. We make that point on a purely mechanical basis. The mechanical assumption is that the sort of mitigation measures to which Dr. de Bruin referred, are planned but until we see significant delivery on this we will not necessarily build it into the projections. It is possible if those sorts of investments are made.

On the focus on business, some of the proposals will relate to business but there are also other actors. Governments can be a very significant actor as can citizens. It is an area where there can be disruption for different sets of people and isolating one actor does not necessarily capture the matter. The Deputy is correct, of course they will be impacted, but plenty of others will be too.