LowCVP submits evidence to Energy Committee inquiry into transport emissions targets
Sun 24 April 2016
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The LowCVP has submitted evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Committee's inquiry which is exploring the main challenges with, and potential solutions to, meeting the UK’s 2020 renewable energy targets for heat and transport.
The 2009 EU Renewable Energy Directive sets a target for the UK to achieve 15% of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020. The Government has proposed to achieve this across the electricity, heat and transport sectors by ensuring that 30% of electricity, 12% of heat and 10% of transport demand are met by renewable sources. Progress in the heat and transport sectors will be crucial to meeting the UK’s own long-term decarbonisation targets as set out in the Climate Change Act.
In providing its evidence the LowCVP drew upon the work of the Transport Energy Task Force. The Department for Transport (DfT) and the LowCVP established the Transport Energy Task Force as a mechanism for stakeholders to help the Government examine and formulate options for policy regarding transport energy.
While progress towards the share of renewable electricity is on track, concerns have been raised regarding progress in renewable heat and transport, and the Committee on Climate Change has warned that the Government’s ambitions may no longer be achievable.
The Committee says that low carbon heat and the decarbonisation of transport were two issues that stakeholders raised with them over the last year as priority areas that need to be scrutinised during the course of this Parliament.
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