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Climate Change Plan 2022-2027 Consultation CONSULTATION ON THE OUTLINE AND PRINCIPLES FOR THE FIRST STATUTORY CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN 2022-2027 Cabinet Office Consultation Paper July 2021 Contents Contents MINISTER INTRODUCTIONS Emissions Category 5 - Business . 44 Chief Minister – Hon Howard Quayle MHK . 04 Emissions Category 6 - Waste Management . 46 Minister for Policy and Reform – Hon Ray Harmer MHK . 05 Emission Removals PURPOSE A. Our Natural Environment: Carbon Retention, Sequestration And Biodiversity . 48 Introduction And Purpose Of This Document . 06 B. Blue Carbon – Ocean Based Climate Solutions . 51 Update On Delivery Of Climate Change Action Plan: Phase One . 08 THE FUTURE/ WORKING TOGETHER A Vision For 2050 . 11 Adaptation And Resilience . 53 An Exciting, Though Complex Journey . 13 Community Engagement . 55 Establishing The Baseline - Understanding Our Emissions . 14 Funding, Taxation And Finance . 58 Economic & Environmental Assessment – Prioritising On Evidence . 18 Setting Interim Target(s) . 61 Just Transition – Making Changes Fairly . 19 Long Term Pathway To Net Zero . 64 Governance – Taking Good Decisions . 20 Next Steps . 65 EMISSIONS CATEGORIES APPENDIX Emissions Category 1 – Energy Generation Appendix 1: Relevant Sections Of The Climate Change Bill A. Transforming Our Electricity Generation . 21 Setting Out Details On The Contents Of The Climate Change Plan . 66 B. Hydrocarbon Extraction . 30 Appendix 2 – Proposed Contents Of Climate Change Plan . 72 Emissions Category 2 - Transport . 31 Appendix 3 - Improving The Quality Of Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data . 73 Emissions Category 3 - Energy Use In Buildings . 36 Appendix 4 – Arup Isle Of Man Future Energy Scenarios Draft Executive Summary And The Future Energy Scenarios Background Reading Document. 79 Emissions Category 4 - Agriculture . 41 03 INTRODUCTIONS ISLE OF MAN INTRODUCTION BY CHIEF MINISTER - INTRODUCTION BY MINISTER FOR POLICY HON HOWARD QUAYLE MHK AND REFORM - HON RAY HARMER MHK Two years on from my recognition of the global climate emergency and call for urgent climate We are at a critical moment in history and may be facing our last chance to act on the action, we have made good progress to ensure that climate change is at the heart of the Isle of climate and ecological emergency and to avert potential disaster. To deliver the change Man Government. A new Climate Change Transformation Team has been established in the that is needed globally and in the Isle of Man, it is imperative that we view climate action Cabinet Office and their work is led by the Climate Change Transformation Board, a political and protecting the environment as central to everything we do. The establishment of the board which I chair. Five Ministers sit on the Board and we are advised by Professor James Climate Change Transformation Team in Cabinet Office is an important acknowledgement Curran MBE in an independent capacity. Since October 2020, the Climate Change of the central role of climate action across the whole of Government. Transformation Team has been working with colleagues across Government to deliver the 60 actions outlined in the Climate Change Action Plan: Phase 1 which was agreed unanimously in We need to move quickly to ensure that we power to deliver the Climate Change Plan Tynwald in January 2020. get on track to reach our target of net zero and help us reach net zero and protect our greenhouse gases as soon as possible and environment effectively. This will require a The Keyll yn Phobble (the People’s Wood) has I am also pleased to be able to make a certainly by 2050. This consultation document new way of thinking across the public service, been planted at Meary Veg and an ambitious commitment that by 2023 an Energy outlines an ambitious programme of work for the private sector and our wider community project to restore our all-important peatland is Performance Certificate will be required when the next five years and sets down our – indeed for every one of us. We are underway. The Citizens’ Forum has been selling or renting out a property, giving home tentative pathway to 2050. committed to working in partnership with meeting since October 2020 and informing the owners an incentive to improve the energy other public bodies, businesses and the wider development and delivery of climate action. efficiency of their homes and giving tenants I am delighted to announce that we have community to each do what is in our gift to more information to choose properties that been accepted as a member of the world- Important research and analysis are underway change for the better. will be cheaper to heat and more leading Under2 Coalition, joining nations and to understand the complexities of comfortable. states around the world to commit to There are some big decisions ahead. We must transitioning our energy, heating and ambitious climate action, and to collaborate decide on our future approach to generating transport systems away from fossil-fuels that The next five years are going to be and share experience in our journey to reach the electricity that powers our Island, how we will help us map out the next three decades particularly challenging as we change our net zero emissions. We are also currently heat our homes and businesses and how we as together we find the best way to reach net course away from fossil fuels and towards the working with the UK on the extension of the travel around the Island and further afield. zero emissions. zero carbon future to which our new Climate Paris Agreement to the Island. This will give The continued pursuit of fossil fuel Change Bill binds us. The Climate Change Bill represents an us a higher level of international accountability exploration has been controversial and important step forward in our progress I am committed to making those changes and clearly signals our intention to work as part presents challenges around the potential towards 2050. Our Government and public and also to guiding and supporting every of a global alliance to keep temperatures revenue that might be generated balanced bodies now have a legal duty to deliver person on the Island to be part of those below 2°C and ideally below 1.5°C. with the legacy of additional emissions that climate action effectively and we have a changes and to benefit from the real would come from extraction. We must confront We are under no illusion about the challenges framework in place that will ensure that we positives that climate action will offer. these issues and develop a new Climate we face and the next five years need to see are making ambitious climate plans and Change Plan that will effectively deliver both This consultation will inform the first statutory not only significant investment in our net zero delivering them. short term emissions reductions and longer- five year Climate Change Plan which we are future but also a social and cultural shift away term changes in our culture and values. And I am very pleased to make some now obliged by law to bring to Tynwald by from our fossil-fuel reliant society. We must important commitments for our future path to April 2022. As such, this plan will be the most reduce our daily impact on the natural world The rewards of making the right decisions net zero. It is my intention that we will ban the significant in setting us on course for net zero. and adopt a way of life increasingly in will be manifold and it is a real opportunity registration of new fossil fuel vehicles in 2030, This consultation is intended to start an Island- harmony with our environment. to shape a fairer society for our community in line with the UK. This will clearly signal our wide conversation in the run up to the election The requirements set out in the Climate and future generations. Innovation and direction of travel and assist consumers in on how (and not if) we will face up to this Change Bill will mean that all Government new ways of thinking will underpin this moving away from fossil fuel vehicles as soon challenge. Now is the time to make the right departments and public bodies will have to culture change and I am excited to be as possible. ensure that they are doing everything in their leading this work within Government. 04 05 PURPOSE INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT Today, we are at the start of a new chapter in the history of the Isle of Man. We have 28 years to transform our Island from fossil fuel reliance to a net zero carbon community. We have made good progress in recent years, putting in place the governance, legislation and resources for change, but now is the time to set our trajectory and accelerate action DEFA’s Climate Challenge Mitigation Strategy keeping global temperature rise below 2ºC, 2016-2020 provided an initial pathway to 80% and ideally below 1.5ºC, which will give us a reduction in emissions by 2050. A public global network of partners to learn from and consultation by DEFA on a Climate Mitigation share experience with. Strategy 2020-2030 in 2019 drew responses Work is also underway to have the Paris from over 1,000 individuals and organisations. Agreement, the key international agreement on In May 2019, the Chief Minister made a climate change, extended to the Isle of Man. commitment for the Island to reach net zero The Paris Agreement has three key strands – by 2050 and for a Climate Change Bill. A climate change mitigation, adaptation and subsequent motion was supported in Tynwald finance. A significant part of the mitigation to commission an independent report on commitments will be delivered by the Climate PURPOSE achieving net zero by 2050. Prof James Change Bill and the delivery of the current Curran was appointed and, supported by a Climate Action Plan, as well as subsequent cross-government team of officers, public statutory plans.
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