Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition by Thomas L. Muinzer

Author:Thomas L. Muinzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319946702
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Part 4 ‘Impact of and Adaptation to Climate Change’

As the title that introduces Part 4 of the CCA suggests—‘Impact of and Adaptation to Climate Change’—this segment of the framework shifts the CCA’s primary focus very much onto the issue of climate change adaptation, in contrast to the preceding Parts, which are concerned foremost with the issue of mitigation . CCA Part 4 places a duty on the Secretary of State to ‘lay reports before Parliament containing an assessment of the risks for the United Kingdom of the current and predicted impact of climate change’.151 It is stipulated that the first report is to be produced within three years of Part 4 of the CCA coming into force.152 The CCA received Royal Assent on 26 November 2008, and CCA section 100, entitled ‘Commencement’, stipulates that Part 4 of the CCA ‘come[s] into force at the end of two months beginning with the day it is passed’.153 This points towards a deadline of 26 January 2009 (i.e. 2 months after 26 November 2008). In the UK Government fashion of often cutting things rather fine, the required adaptation report appeared on 25 January 2012, where it was laid before UK Parliament .154 Subsequent mandatory reports are to be published in cycles of no later than five years after the report that has preceded it.155 The CCC has a duty to advise on these reports.156

Part 4 also makes a distinction between the process of reporting on adaptation and the obligation to produce programmes for adaptation to climate change.157 Thus, while the points just raised concern obligations to assess and report on impacts and developments in the sphere of adaptation, in addition to the Secretary of State’s reporting functions section 58 also requires him to produce climate change adaptation programmes , as follows:

1.It is the duty of the Secretary of State to lay programmes before Parliament setting out

(a)the objectives of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom in relation to adaptation to climate change,

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