Policy paper

Interministerial Group for Net Zero, Energy and Climate Change communiqu茅: 24 November 2021

Published 7 December 2022

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

皇冠体育app Net Zero, Energy and Climate Change Interministerial Group met on 24 November 2021. 皇冠体育app meeting was chaired by the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), Edwin Poots MLA.

Attendees

皇冠体育app attending ministers were as follows.

From the UK government

Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change (BEIS), 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Greg Hands MP

Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Lucy Frazer QC MP

From the Scottish Government

Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Michael Matheson MSP

From the Welsh Government

Minister for Climate Change, Julie James MS

From the Northern Ireland Executive

Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Edwin Poots MLA

Minister for the Economy, Gordon Lyons MLA

What聽was discussed

皇冠体育app Interministerial Group welcomed a new Minister for the Economy from the Northern Ireland Executive.

皇冠体育app Group then discussed the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), next steps in the context of intergovernmental engagement on the Net Zero Strategy and the outcomes of the recent聽COP26聽Climate Change Conference.