Climate Change Bill — Target for 2050 is 80% — rejected — 25 Feb 2008 at 17:31
The Majority of Lords voted against changing the target for the net UK carbon account from 60% to 80% below the 1990 baseline.[1][2]
This provision actually passed without a vote and with very little debate when it was brought before the House of Commons.[3]
- [1] Climate Change Bill, Target for 2050, Clause 1, House of Lords.
- [2] Lord Redesdale, House of Lords, 25 February 2008
- [3] Clause 1 - The target for 2050, House of Commons, 28 October 2008
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 0 | 1 | 4.0% |
| Con | 4 | 3 | 3.4% |
| Ind Lab | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 123 (+2 tell) | 0 | 56.8% |
| LDem | 0 | 42 (+2 tell) | 55.0% |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 14.3% |
| Crossbench | 19 | 5 | 12.8% |
| Total: | 148 | 51 | 27.9% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.