Minister, with all due respect, we know the only pathway to meet and hold to 1.5°C, which is the goal of the Paris Agreement.... Net zero by 2050 is meaningless if we've blown the carbon budget to get to 1.5°C by 2030.
I've cited to you before in Parliament the very excellent description of carbon budgets from Mark Carney, at page 273 of his book Value(s), so I won't read it out here. We're going to blow any chance of hitting 1.5°C well before 2030 and everyone knows it. Having a process that involves massive consultations for every step and builds in delays could defeat the whole purpose of ensuring that we meet our Paris target of holding to 1.5°C.
Are you open to considering amendments to have the kind of robust expert body that the U.K. has to hold to its climate accountability act, which has worked?