Executive Summary:

This briefing is set within the context of the climate emergency and the significant gaps which exist between stated ambitions and plans, and the necessary carbon trajectories to ‘keep 1.5 °C alive’.

Very significant demands for new infrastructure are put forward by bodies at the National, Sub National and Local level, and the National Infrastructure Commission is beginning work for the second National Infrastructure Needs Assessment.

However, partly as a result of central government siloes, the carbon implications of infrastructure have not been adequately considered in the strategic cases advanced to date. This has to change and there is an appetite for this to happen.