Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (2022 c. 31 (N.I.))
- Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (2022 c. 31 (N.I.))
- PART 1 Emissions Targets And Sectoral Plans
- The emissions targets
- 1 The emissions targets for 2050
- 2 Emissions targets for 2030 and 2040
- 3 The emissions target for 2040
- 4 The emissions target for 2030
- Power to amend targets
- 5 Power to amend emissions targets
- 6 Duty to consider whether to revise targets
- Meaning of key concepts
- 7 Meaning of “baseline”
- 8 Meaning of “net Northern Ireland emissions account”
- Meaning of underlying concepts
- 9 Meaning of “net Northern Ireland emissions”
- 10 Meaning of “Northern Ireland emissions”: international aviation and shipping
- 11 Crediting and debiting of carbon units
- 12 Carbon units: accounting scheme
- Sectoral plans
- 13 Sectoral plans
- 14 Sectoral plans for energy
- 15 Renewable electricity consumption
- 16 Sectoral plans for infrastructure
- 17 Sectoral plans for industrial processes
- 18 Sectoral plans for waste management
- 19 Sectoral plans for agriculture
- 20 Sectoral plans for fisheries
- 21 Sectoral plans for transport
- 22 Active travel
- PART 2 Carbon Budgets
- 23 Carbon budgets
- 24 Emissions not to exceed carbon budget
- 25 Setting of carbon budgets: principles
- 26 Setting of carbon budgets: social, environmental and economic factors
- 27 Setting of carbon budgets: timing
- 28 Carrying amounts from one budgetary period to another
- PART 3 Reports and Statements against Targets and Budgets etc
- Carbon budgets
- 29 Proposals and policies for meeting carbon budget
- 30 Requirements for proposals and policies under section 29
- 31 Just Transition Fund for Agriculture
- 32 Proposals and policies: targets
- 33 Proposals and policies: further provision
- 34 Proposals and policies: nature based solutions
- 35 Proposals and policies: workforce, employers and communities
- 36 Proposals and policies: carbon leakage
- 37 Just Transition Commission
- 38 Interim progress reporting for budgetary period
- 39 Final statement for budgetary period
- 40 Proposals and policies where carbon budget not met
- Emissions targets
- 41 Statements on compliance with emissions targets
- Other reports
- 42 Climate change reporting by public bodies
- PART 4 Reports by Committee on Climate Change
- 43 Progress report during first budgetary period
- 44 Progress reports after statement about each budgetary period
- 45 Progress report after statement about emissions target for 2030
- 46 Progress report after statement about emissions target for 2040
- 47 Response to progress reports
- 48 Adaptation programme reports
- 49 Response to adaptation programme reports
- PART 5 FURTHER OVERSIGHT
- 50 Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner
- 51 Climate action plan
- PART 6 Supplementary
- Duties in relation to emissions
- 52 Duties to ensure that targets etc are met
- Regulation-making powers: general
- 53 Regulations: general
- Regulation-making powers: restrictions and considerations
- 54 Regulations that amend or add an emissions target or amend a carbon budget
- 55 Regulations that specify a different baseline year or change a budgetary period
- Regulation-making powers: advice
- 56 Requirement to obtain advice about proposals to make regulations
- 57 Advice about proposed regulations relating to targets
- 58 Advice about proposed regulations relating to budgets
- Definitions
- 59 Meaning of “carbon unit”
- 60 Meaning of “greenhouse gas”
- 61 Meaning and measurement of emissions
- 62 Meaning of “sector”
- 63 Other definitions
- General
- 64 Commencement
- 65 Short title
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