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Global carbon dioxide emissions 1800–2007 Countries by carbon dioxide emissions （blue the highest） The Climate Change Act 2008 （c 27） is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Act makes it the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that the net UK carbon account for all six Kyoto greenhouse gases for the year 2050 is at least 100% lower than the 1990 baseline, toward avoiding dangerous climate change.
The Act aims to enable the United Kingdom to become a low-carbon economy and gives ministers powers to introduce the measures necessary to achieve a range of greenhouse gas reduction targets.
An independent Committee on Climate Change has been created under the Act to provide advice to UK Government on these targets and related policies.
In the act Secretary of State refers to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
On 16 October 2008 Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced that the Act would mandate an 80% cut overall in six greenhouse gases by 2050.
When first published the Government proposed that the Act would set a target of a 60% cut, excluding international aviation and shipping, a figure that had been a Government ambition for some years.
The original 60% figure was adopted based on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, made in their June 2000 report Energy - The Changing Environment.
If adopted by other countries too, a 60% cut by 2050 was thought likely to limit atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to no more than 550 parts per million which, it was generally thought at the time,
would probably prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 2 °C （3.6 °F） and so avoid th...