It is interesting that you ask that question, because if I go back to lesson 8 from our 2021 “Lessons Learned” report on climate change, we start lesson 8 with the following:
Governments often struggle with long-term problems. Governments—and those who wish to form a government—often plan around the next election, rather than around longer-term challenges.
We've highlighted that as a problem for a few years now. Are there ways to address that? There are. There was the attempt to put in what's called the interim objective—I think that's what you're talking about—for 2026, but even then, that is five years after the date that this act received royal assent. The net-zero act was in 2021.
There are other options. Annual carbon budgeting is another one. There would be accountability every year. You could have sectoral measurement. That could be for the entire country or for a jurisdiction or a sector.
There are ways of turning long-term objectives into annual deliverables.