Thread by @ChiefExecCCC

Tweets have been light recently while we prepare for a very busy period ahead. We’re about to bring you a *lot* of new analysis, insight and commentary.

A rundown of what’s coming up soon from @theCCCuk.

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There are four themes to our work for the year prior to #COP26

1) Achieving Net Zero in the UK.
2) The UK’s international climate focus.
3) Climate risk and adaptation.
4) New scrutiny of progress

Let’s look at each, starting with the first...

On December 9 we publish our Sixth Carbon Budget advice. It's a biggie: advice on the transition all the way to #NetZero.

New sectoral insights
New investment numbers, profiled over time
New cost / benefit analysis
New Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland pathways
New policy advice

This is different to what we published last year.

The Net Zero Report was answering a question of *whether* to reset the goal - ‘proof of concept’ that we could and should set it to Net Zero.

This year, we are presenting our best evidence on *how* best to get there.

Expect a thorough take on the path to #NetZero, with several illustrative scenarios for achieving the goal.

We'll have a detailed assessment of required progress over the next 10-15 years - technology and behaviour - and the steps to drive that across the economy.

We will advise on the level of the Sixth Carbon Budget (2033-37) and the implied level of the UK’s 2030 NDC on that pathway.

We want to make this our most accessible report ever. So, alongside the main report, expect a clear description of our methodology - and improved access to the numbers themselves.

We know how important that is.

We have several new supporting pieces of evidence.

We’ve commissioned independent reports from world-leading experts on
1) Policy for Net Zero
2) Financing Net Zero
3) The Health impacts

Prof Sir Michael Marmot’s Health report should be the first published in the next few days.

We also have two reports to accompany the main report, led in-house:

On the critical role that local authorities play in driving action, in line with a national strategy.

On the role of business in achieving Net Zero, including standards and strategies for corporates to adopt.

We have a duty to give the @WelshGovernment advice on the new Welsh carbon budgets.

We’ll do that in a special report on 17 December, drawing on the brand-new analysis in the Sixth Carbon Budget.

The Sixth Carbon Budget is (debatably) the last of the important UK-wide targets to guide emissions.

So, this report marks the beginning of a renewed focus on delivery @theCCCuk. Moving away from recent target-setting – to advice on how to *achieve* these targets in practice.

Next is international work.

We have always considered international issues - and we will have a fresh take in the Sixth Carbon Budget - but there’s special importance to looking at these issues before #COP26.

We have some extra funding this year to allow us to do this work.

On Thursday (29 Oct) we’ll publish a set of eight briefings to share insight from the UK experience on tackling climate change.

These are short notes on the approaches and lessons learned by @theCCCuk in advising the UK on emissions reductions and adaptation to climate change.

These should be helpful in reaching out to other countries who are considering new climate law - through the @FCDOClimate network.

But they are also brilliant education tools in the UK. Look out for them on Thursday.

In 2021, we are also planning a load of new engagement with various bodies around the world as we approach #COP26, including a meeting of other similar ‘climate councils’ before the COP itself.

More on this soon.

Next is climate risk and adaptation.

Expect this to be the next major theme for @theCCCuk after we complete the Sixth Carbon Budget.

We are working towards delivering the evidence for the Third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (#CCRA3) before summer 2021.

We’ve just helped coordinate a brilliant conference on the impacts of 3C warming.

Quick summary here:

https://twitter.com/AtmosScience/status/1318940130942636032?s=20

And here:

https://twitter.com/UKCRP_SPF/status/1318937407270625280

We will have a new piece from @KathrynABrown coming in the next few days, exploring why we need to look at high warming levels when assessing UK climate risk. We can't discount 4C, even with the progress we're seeing on global emissions.

A strong message for #COP26 too.

And lastly, we move to scrutiny.

There are two major demands on @theCCCuk, as we move into 2021 and beyond:

It’s clear that must move to delivery as our priority.

It’s *also* clear that we need to accompany that with renewed scrutiny of government's progress.

So, building on the Sixth Carbon Advice and CCRA3, we are planning a fresh approach to scrutiny.

This is something we’ll develop over the first half of 2021 – and you’ll see a refreshed appraisal framework in our bumper progress report next summer – on adaptation and mitigation.

And a final bonus issue.

We’ve worked on so much new material and fresh analysis, we want to communicate that in a new, modern way too.

The website will shortly get a spring clean.

We have a new look for @theCCCuk reports.

We want to communicate the Sixth Carbon Budget in an exciting new way at our online launch event.

And we’ll have a week-long set of ‘deep dives’ on the following week – all online.

And finally: we are conceding that the world at large calls us the ‘Climate Change Committee’ - not the ‘Committee on Climate Change’ (it has always been a mouthful) - so a minor renaming is in order.

Buckle up folks…