Mr. Jonathan Church:

I agree with all that. I would add that Dr. Muinzer's picture of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 is quite right. There is not enough in that Act and it risks looking too technocratic. Carbon budgets are set and in theory they are democratically mandated. They go through Parliament, but there is a potential mismatch between what is involved in meeting those carbon budgets and an understanding of their implications among the people at large. Those two things must be connected.

There may be a real opportunity to somehow establish a periodic role for Climate Assembly UK to feed into the mechanisms of the Act. That could be useful. I believe France has a similar climate assembly. There was talk of somehow integrating its conclusions into the national policy agenda.