For some work for a non-profit that I'm doing, I'm trying to compile a list of what the policies with respect to climate change are for various countries.  In this process, I was reading the Draft of the UK climate change bill and it struck me that it is rather simple?  Part of the reason is to see what ideas other countries have in reducing GHGs. 

Question: Does the bill do anything but set some limits in statue? Is a further law needed that will include say, regulations on coal burning plants, or car emission standards?

Any of you Brits want to comment on how meanful this particular bill is?
thx robin

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On pg 11, the key elements are listed as:
1. Setting targets in statute and carbon budgeting
2. Establishing a Committee on Climate Change
3. Creating enabling powers
4. Reporting requirements

In a further section it states:
5.61 There are a range of policies available to achieve reductions in emissions.
These include tax, voluntary agreements, traditional regulations, awareness
raising and trading schemes35. All these instruments have a role to play in
reducing emissions but have different characteristics. For example tax can be
increased on specific activities to reflect the cost of emissions and, where
relevant, other negative impacts which they produce and therefore discourage
the emissions. This gives certainty that the cost of emissions (and in some
cases other negative impacts) is being taken into account but does not
guarantee a fixed level of emissions.