Carbon Emissions: Health

(asked on 31st March 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, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2021 to Question 88605, Carbon Emissions: Health, what policies his Department has implemented in response to the report by the Climate Change Committee’s UK Health Expert Advisory Group entitled, Sustainable Health Equity: Achieving a Net Zero UK.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

The Government considered the Climate Change Committee’s advice, alongside a range of relevant evidence, when setting the sixth carbon budget and to inform policy development. The Government’s Net Zero Strategy, published in October last year, sets out the Government’s vision to transition to net zero by 2050, including to grasp the health benefits from changes such as better insulated homes, cleaner air and more walking and cycling.

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