Professor John Sweeney:

I will sum up. I refer to the amnesia in section 6(d), in which 99% of an overshoot is seemingly forgotten. That ignores the obligations under the UK Act which has a similar phrase but requires countries to carry the burden.

On sectoral budgets, the maximum and minimum ranges of decarbonisation budgets are not specified. This is crucial, as is their being consistent with the overall carbon budget.

On the composition of the Climate Change Advisory Council, CCAC, it is proposed that it include civil servants whose obligations, I believe, may prevent them from contradicting Government policy, for example. The independence of the CCAC should be ensured. Semi-State individuals should serve in an advisory role rather than having 30% of the voting power as seems to be currently implied.

Finally, there is accountability. There is no accountability for anything going wrong here. There should be some sanction for failing to achieve the carbon budgets. That sanction, for example, could be departmental budgets being used to purchase annual emission allocations.

They are my main points and I will be happy to answer questions.