Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget

Responding to the publication of the Climate Change Committee’s Carbon Budget report, Community Assistant General Secretary Alasdair McDiarmid said:

“The Climate Change Committee are right to call for a robust Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which would safeguard our steel industry from the threat of dirty steel imports. We would also echo the committee’s comments on the need for comprehensive government support for businesses making the transition to lower carbon modes of production.

“This is of course particularly pertinent for British Steel in Scunthorpe, and the union-endorsed Syndex report released last week sets out a path for how we can transition the site towards greener steelmaking whilst minimising job losses and ensuring continuity of supply. We fully support the Labour government’s game-changing commitment of £2.5billion in funding to help the steel industry decarbonise, and with that same sense of ambition and purpose we hope that ministers will be able to get behind the Syndex plan.”