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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I am not entirely sure what the appropriate mechanism is to do what we are all trying to do, which is to keep this matter of carbon management right at the top of the agenda, making sure that it does not slip down and that people—particularly the Government—do not forget it. It might be worth bearing in mind that a number of large energy companies, when now considering projects and talking to their individual component parts, require not only a financial budget but an emissions budget. It might be worth asking the relevant departments, to which attention has been drawn in the discussion so far, to produce carbon budgets as well as financial budgets, simply to focus their attention on this problem.