A GROUP set up to provide independent scrutiny of the government’s Carbon Neutral Roadmap, which proposes a way for Jersey to emit no more carbon than it can absorb by 2050, is due to release a key report next week.
The Climate Council includes several experts from fields including meteorology, sustainable finance, green energy and carbon capture.
Environment Minister Steve Luce has recently said he is not adopting a key proposal of the roadmap, which is a ban of the importation of new and used petrol and diesel cars from 2030.
The Climate Council was established following the successful amendment to the draft Carbon Neutral Roadmap in 2022, proposed by the Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel, of which Deputy Luce was then Vice Chair.
The amendment called for the creation of an independent body to review progress and advise on future climate change mitigation action.
In 2023, the States Assembly voted unanimously for establishment of a Climate Council that would be tasked with producing a report at the end of each four-year delivery phase of the Carbon Neutral Roadmap, the first of which ended last year.
