The Carbon Budgets Order 2009
This Order sets carbon budgets for the budgetary periods 2008–2012 (3,018 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), 2013–2017 (2,782 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent) and 2018–2022 (2,544 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent). Carbon budgets set a cap on the maximum level of the net UK carbon account for each five-year budgetary period.