Climate Assembly UK Climate Assembly UK

The Climate Assembly UK was a citizen assembly in 2020 commissioned by six select committees of the House of Commons to deliberate the question, “How should the UK meet its target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050?”. The Climate Assembly was formed in response to the UK government and parliament’s 2019 commitment to “the net zero target” – the target of reducing emissions by 100% by 2050 – and brought together 108 people from across the UK, selected to be representative of the population in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, educational level, where in the UK they live and whether they live in an urban or rural area, and level of concern about climate change. The assembly culminated in a report for the attention of the U.K. government containing more than 50 policy recommendations for achieving the net-zero target by 2050.