Interministerial Group for Net Zero, Energy and Climate Change communiqué: 13 March 2024
Published 19 December 2024
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The Net Zero, Energy and Climate Change Interministerial Group met on 13 March 2024. The meeting was chaired by the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP (UK Government).
Attendees
The attending ministers were as follows.
From the UK government
Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP
From the Scottish Government
Minister for Energy, Just Transition and Fair Work, Gillian Martin MSP
From the Welsh Government
Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters MS
From the Northern Ireland Executive
A senior official from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, (deputising for the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs)
A senior official from the Department for the Economy, (deputising for the Minister for the Economy)
What was discussed
The Climate Change Committee’s Director of Analysis delivered a presentation to the group on the upcoming Carbon Budget 7 work programme. Ministers then took part in a discussion of matters raised during the presentation. The interministerial group also discussed aspects of Industrial Decarbonisation and Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS).