Climate Change Act 2008

Territorial Application: Wales

23.The Act confers the following functions on the Welsh Ministers:

• Part 2 and Schedule 1: powers to seek advice from the Committee on Climate Change and functions in relation to its joint sponsorship;

• Part 3 and Schedules 2, 3 and 4: the power to make trading schemes covering certain activities in Wales, and to require information from electricity suppliers and distributors and potential participants in a trading scheme;

• Part 4, sections 66 and 67: powers to issue guidance and directions to reporting authorities in relation to adaptation;

• Part 5, section 77 and Schedule 6: the power to make regulations introducing charges for single use carrier bags;

• Part 5, section 80: the duty to draw up a report on climate change in Wales and to lay it before the National Assembly for Wales;

• Part 5, section 81: the function of preparing a climate change measures report in Wales; this section inserts a new, Wales-specific section 3A into the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 (c.19);

• Part 5, section 87: the power to acquire units to offset emissions.

24.Sections 71 to 75 and Schedule 5 (waste reduction schemes) extend to England and Wales but apply to England only.