Member

On the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Offord, I note that our ambition for 2030 very much follows the advice of the Climate Change Committee. Today we debated adaptation policies, whereby the committee basically said that the Government need to pull their finger out and get on with it. That is what it has been saying about climate change mitigation, implying that we need to get on with the decarbonisation of our energy sources. That is what we seek to do. We have had independent advice from NESO that, while the 2030 targets are challenging, they can be done—and we are working on that basis. As noble Lords will know, we see that we need an energy mix that takes advantage of the nuclear baseload and that we speed on with renewables. We have gas as our strategic reserve because of the flexibility it brings, and CCUS brings great potential in that area.