publications, like the Clean Growth Strategy, took a 2050 perspective. Likewise, in the future, our strategy will evolve as innovation and technology develops. The UK’s Clean Growth Strategy outlines in detail our action up to 2032, in line with our Carbon Budgets, and highlights possible pathways to our 2050 target. Despite our significant achievements to date, we recognise that hitting our carbon budgets and growing our low carbon economy brings its own challenges, that can be achieved through ambition, innovation and efforts to scale up investment. To ensure we continue to build economic growth while cutting emissions, clean growth has a central role within the UK’s Industrial Strategy. We will need to mobilise more private capital in sustainable projects, with the UK acting as a hub for global low carbon investment. Some of the major policies that will deliver both on the carbon budgets up to 2032 and beyond to 2050 • accelerating the shift to low carbon transport, committing to the end-of-sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040; • phasing out the use of unabated coal to produce electricity by 2025; • supporting British businesses to improve their energy productivity by at least 20% by 2030; and • working towards our ambition of zero avoidable waste by 2050. The Clean Growth Strategy sets out the range of opportunities for the UK out to 2050 and gives an overview of three illustrative 2050 1. The Electricity pathway - where transport and heating are primarily fuelled by electricity, virtually all of which is from clean sources. 2. The Hydrogen pathway - using hydrogen to heat our homes and buildings, to fuel vehicles, and to power UK’s industry; and finally. 3. The Emissions removal pathway - where biomass power stations are used in parallel with carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). These pathways help us to identify low-regrets steps we can take in the next few years common to many low-carbon visions of the future. The importance of far-reaching strategies is vital to the success of achieving our goals. It is only through innovation that we will see the cost of clean technologies come down. Our strategy sets out how £2.5bn will be invested by the UK Government to support low-carbon innovation between 2015-2021. These technologies will be needed through the 2030s and 2040s, as well as for the immediate challenges of decarbonisation. In the Clean Growth Strategy we announced Green Great Britain Week, a high-profile annual week starting in Autumn 2018. The week will bring together government, business, academia, civil society and communities to celebrate clean growth and look at climate change in the UK in a new light. The Clean Growth Strategy, and the Clean Growth Grand Challenge under the Industrial Strategy, recognise that building on the successful decarbonisation of the power sector requires looking further across the whole of the economy and the country. The choices that people, communities and businesses make around areas like transport and heating will be

increasingly important to action on climate change. Green Great Britain Week will bring together groups to forge a greater sense of responsibility around these challenges in an inclusive manner. Later this year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will set out its “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C” and the world will come together in Katowice at COP24 to consider our collective progress in mitigating climate change through the Talanoa Dialogue. We know that currently the world is not on track to meet the targets of Paris. Our collective commitment in Paris is well documented but it is not enough. The Paris Agreement includes an aim to achieve rapid reduction of emissions by sources and removal by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of the century. More needs to be understood about the global path to net zero emissions and to help meet this, the UK will need to legislate for a net zero emissions target at an appropriate point in the future to provide legal certainty on where the UK is heading. We ask that by 2020 all Parties come forward with their own long-term low emission development strategies. We believe that setting out a long-term strategy is one of the important steps that each member of the global community should take to ensure we reach the Paris goals. We hope the UK can be an inspirational example of what is possible, and most of all we look forward to working with other countries to develop and implement their own long-term strategies, so we can continue to learn from each other and collaborate in the true spirit of the Paris Agreement. THE RT HON CLAIRE PERRY MP Minister of State