Consumption-Based Emissions Reporting: first evidence session
24 November 2011
The Energy and Climate Change Committee will hold the first oral evidence session of its inquiry Consumption-based emissions reporting at 10.15 am on Tuesday 29 November 2011 in Committee Room 18, Palace of Westminster.
Who will give evidence?
At 10.15 am approx:
- Dr Alice Bows, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
- Elena Dawkins, Stockholm Environment Institute, and
- Professor John Barrett, University of Leeds
At 11.15 am approx:
- Jeremy Nicholson, EEF
- Ian Rogers, UK Steel
- Fergus McReynolds, Energy Intensive Users Group
- Dr Richard Leese, Minerals Products Association
Timings are approximate.
What subjects will be covered?
- Differences in assessment of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions when measured on a consumption rather than a production basis;
- Methodologies for measuring emissions on a consumption rather than production basis;
- the benefits and disadvantages associated with taking a consumption-based rather than production-based approach to greenhouse gas emissions accounting;
- whether there any evidence of industry relocating from the UK to other countries as a result of UK climate change policy; and
- the potential implications at the international level of the UK adopting a consumption- rather than production-based approach to greenhouse gas emissions accounting.