Publication - Impact assessment

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA)

Published: 23 November 2023
From: Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Transport
ISBN: 9781835214169

This Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) covers changes to the aviation and maritime sectors under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and their potential impact on island communities.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Government Response to the Developing the UK ETS consultation

2. Developing the UK ETS consultation

3. Island Communities Impact Assessment: guidance and toolkit

4. Domestic flights, flights from the UK to EEA countries, the UK to Gibraltar and Great Britain to Switzerland flights. The return flights are covered by the EU and Swiss ETS schemes.

5. Developing the UK ETS consultation - March to June 2022

6. Government Response to the Developing the UK ETS consultation

7. ‘Carbon leakage’ is defined as “where production and associated greenhouse gas emissions are displaced in ways that would not have happened if the pricing of emissions across jurisdictions was implemented in an equivalent way.”

8. The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020 (legislation.gov.uk)

9. Impacts of carbon pricing on the UK aviation sector

10. UK ETS Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA)

11. Developing the UK ETS consultation document

12. Developing the UK ETS: impact assessment (publishing.service.gov.uk)