By comparison with last year’s, the latest Climate Action Plan has come out six weeks closer to the annual December 31 deadline and, at 284 pages, it weighs in at nearly 80 pages longer than the previous iteration. The length of a government policy statement and the time spent finalising it are not necessarily indicators of quality, but in this case, it seems they are. In previous years, Climate Action Plans had generally been non-binding, aspirational documents indicating areas where government departments would publish reports, establish working groups and develop approaches. Two exceptions were the acceleration of renewable energy deployment,…

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