Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - the Draft Third Report on Policies and Proposals 2017-2032

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- Executive Summary
- Climate Change Act 2009 and reporting requirements
- Parliamentary procedure for consideration of the Draft Climate Change Plan
- Committee consideration
  - Key questions
  - Written and oral evidence
  - Approach to the report
- Overarching conclusions
- Agriculture
  - Progress to date
  - Proposals and policies
    
    Knowledge and awareness raising
    
    Voluntary versus mandatory measures
    
    Advisory services
    
    Agri-tech group
    
    Carbon audits
    
    Tenant farmers
    
    Low Carbon Marketing scheme
    
    Nitrogen use and soil fertility
    
    Nitrogen use - precision and efficiency
    
    Science based targets for nitrogen
    
    Soil testing
    
    Leguminous crops and improved nitrogen efficiency
    
    Red meat and dairy
    
    Emission intensity
    
    Livestock health and feed additives
    
    Manure and Slurry
    
    Anaerobic digestion
    
    Improving use and storage
    
    Lifestock grazing and minimising emissions
    
    Carbon sequestration
    
    Planting trees and hedgerows
    
    Woodland cover targets
  - Additional areas for inclusion
    
    Organic produce
    
    Demand
    
    Conservation tillage
- Transport
  - Progress to date
  - Proposals and Policies
    
    Technical measures
    
    Ultra-low emission and electric vehicles
    
    Consolidation centres
    
    Modal shift
    
    Active Travel
    
    Public Transport
    
    Freight
    
    Demand measures
    
    Infrastructure investment
    
    Low emission zones and Workplace Parking Levies
    
    Aviation
  - Additional areas for inclusion
    
    Land use and planning
- Forestry
  - Progress to date
  - Proposals and policies
    
    Planting targets
    
    Wood for construction
  - Additional areas for inclusion
    
    Location and type of tree planting
    
    Managing existing woodland
    
    Subsidy regimes
    
    Land use
- Co-benefits
- Annex A
  - Extracts from the minutes of Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee meetings
- Annex B
  - Written evidence
- Annex C
  - Additional Information on TIMES Model
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