Research Briefing
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme
The UK left the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) at the end of the Brexit transition period and has implemented a UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) to replace it.
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Debate Pack
District heat networks
MPs will debate District heat networks in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 28 April 2021 at 4.50pm. Elliot Colburn MP will open the debate.
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Research Briefing
Integrated Review 2021
This landing page features a new series of Commons Library briefings on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, and the subsequent Defence Command Paper, which were both published in March 2021.
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Research Briefing
Integrated Review 2021: Summary
The Government published its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy: Global Britain in a Competitive Age, on 16 March 2021. Billed as the biggest review of the UK's defence and security since the end of the Cold War, it sets out the UK's approach to the expected challenges of the next decade.
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Debate Pack
Estimates Day Debate: COP26 Climate Conference
MPs will debate the COP26 Climate Conference on Wednesday 10 March as part of the Estimates Day debate. This briefing provides background information for the debate and also parliamentary and media coverage of the issues.
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Research Briefing
New nuclear power
This Commons Library briefing paper summarises current progress on nuclear power, including conventional reactors, advanced designs, waste disposal, and nuclear research.
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Research Briefing
Climate and Ecology Bill 2019-21
The Climate and Ecology Bill aims to set new legally binding environment and climate objectives for the UK and create a Citizen's Assembly to support the Government in meeting those objectives.
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Research Briefing
Energy policy: an overview
This page summarises the Commons Library publications on energy policy. The overview briefing paper provides background on energy in the UK, the basis for energy policy, and a timeline of significant developments in energy policy.
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Research Briefing
Climate Assembly UK
The report from Climate Assembly UK, The Path to Net Zero, will be debated in the House of Commons on 26 September 2020. Climate Assembly UK was jointly commissioned by six Parliamentary Select Committees in 2019 to answer the question of how the UK should meet its target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Debate Pack
Work of the Jet Zero Council
A Westminster Hall Debate on "The Work of the Jet Zero Council" is scheduled for 2.30pm on Wednesday 14 October 2020.
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Insight
Climate Change Explainers
Climate Change Explainers is a series of Insights by the Commons Library about climate change.
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Insight
The scientific basics of climate change
An overview of the basic concepts underlying greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and climate change, with references to further information and underlying research.
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Insight
The history of global climate change negotiations
A short introduction to the history of climate change as an intergovernmental political issue, touching on key international treaties and agreements reached along the way.
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Insight
MPs and climate change: How does policy change happen?
This Insight explains the role of MPs in driving and scrutinising policy change, including how the landmark Climate Change Act 2008 came into force.
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Insight
The rise of climate change activism?
This Insight examines changes in public attitudes towards climate change and whether climate change activism is also changing.
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