Britain may need to accept tougher emissions targets after the first universal deal on global warming, according to the government’s advisers.
The Committee on Climate Change said that it would examine the impact of the agreement reached at the weekend in Paris, including the tougher commitment it contains to restrict warming to “well below” 2C and to “pursue efforts” to keep it to 1.5C.
The committee, which advises the government on how to meet Britain’s legally binding targets for cutting emissions, based its previous recommendations on a goal of 2C.
Matthew Bell, the committee’s chief executive, said that it would consider whether the “carbon budgets”, which set the total amount Britain can emit in a five-year period, should be changed.
The committee will inform the