Policy paper

Net Zero Growth Plan and Carbon Budget Delivery Plan: analysis methodology

This technical annex to Powering Up Britain sets out the methodological approach taken to analysis in the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan and the Net Zero Growth Plan.

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Documents

Powering Up Britain: charts and tables

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Powering Up Britain: emissions taxonomy

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Details

This analysis methodology serves as the technical annex to Powering Up Britain. It details the approach taken to account for greenhouse gas emissions in the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan.

This includes detail on:

  • emissions modelling of policies and proposals
  • the baseline used in calculations
  • wider uncertainties in modelling

It also details wider analysis - including analysis using jobs vacancies data - and updates on performance against metrics we committed to report against in the Net Zero Strategy.

Updates to this page

Published 30 March 2023
Last updated 22 June 2023 + show all updates
  1. We have updated the Charts and Tables document with 2 corrections: On Figure 1.3: Levelised Cost of Energy, historical forecasts from DESNZ against outturn data, we have corrected the figures, some of which were using the wrong base year. We have also updated the BloombergNEF outturn data after they updated their LCOE data. On CBDP Table 6, policy #62, the Flaring and Venting Abatement, we have corrected the timescale from which the policy takes effect (2030, not 2031).

  2. We have updated the Charts and Tables document with a new table: Carbon Budget Delivery Plan Table 6: Quantified Policies and Proposals.

  3. First published.

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