Climate Change

The Environmental Audit Committee Climate Change - The UK Programme 2006 inquiry

Memorandum by the Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) welcomes the opportunity to comment on "The Environmental Audit Committee Climate Change - The UK Programme 2006" inquiry.

The RSC is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences.  Supported by a network of 43,000 members worldwide and an internationally acclaimed publishing business, our activities span education and training, conferences and science policy, and the promotion of the chemical sciences to the public.

This document represents the views of the RSC. The RSC's Royal Charter obliges it to serve the public interest by acting in an independent advisory capacity, and the RSC is happy for this submission to be put into the public domain. 

The document has been written from the perspective of the Royal Society of Chemistry and consequently our comments relate to only parts of the consultation document.

The evidence submitted was for the most part published in an RSC report entitled "Chemical Science Priorities for Sustainable Energy Solutions", the RSC responses to the DTI energy review, the EAC inquiry into Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport, the S&T committee inquiry into carbon capture and storage and the joint RSC and Bioscience Federation response to the EFRA inquiry into biofuels.