Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, it is useful to be discussing this subject. I hope that I can provide some clarification. The noble Lord, Lord Teverson, asked why we tabled the amendment at this point in the Bill. The answer is that this, so far as I can see, is the first moment in the Bill where the number of years in the period is mentioned. It is about the length of the budgets. The Minister’s reply did not quite take up our point. We are talking about any changes in international agreements. Those agreements affect the type of units that are looked on as carbon units, the length of the budget period, the trading and all sorts of things. We were interested to know how the changes, which the Government, having signed up to Kyoto and having passed this Bill, will be legally bound to reflect, will be passed on to the devolved Administrations. I think that there is a little more to be found on this topic, but in the mean time I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 6 [Amendment of target percentages]: