Coal: Mining

(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the letter from the Minister of State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change to the Welsh Minister for Climate Change, dated 7 January 2022, if he will make it his policy to amend the Coal Industry Act 1994 to give the Coal Authority a statutory duty to (a) manage a decline of the coal industry in the UK in line with (i) the Glasgow Climate Pact and (ii) the IEA’s report Net Zero by 2050 - A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector and (b) ensure a just transition for workers in the coal industry.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 14th February 2022

There are no plans to provide the Coal Authority with new duties. However, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from global coal use remains a key Government priority for the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign, including through securing ‘coal phasedown’ language in the Glasgow Climate Pact, the Government’s co-leadership of the Powering Past Coal Alliance, and launching an International Just Transition Declaration at the Glasgow Summit.

https://ukcop26.org/supporting-the-conditions-for-a-just-transition-internationally/

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