Uncategorized 31 Jan 2007 08:50 am
Getting beaten by the Brits.
Keerist–they’re kicking our ass, and lamenting how poorly they’ve done. The mother country, showing what responsible leadership is all about:
Government admits pollution target unrealistic
Hilary Osborne
Wednesday January 31, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Mist and pollution over the City of London. Photograph: Matthew Fearn/PA
The UK will struggle to hit its 2010 target for reducing carbon emissions, the environment secretary said today.While the country is on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by almost double its Kyoto target, David Miliband said the domestic goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 20% on 1990 levels “looked increasingly difficult to achieve”.
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on 01 Feb 2007 at 1:28 am 1.Tom said …
Some context… that Kyoto targets don’t include aviation, which is rapidly increasing.
Also, in the early 1990s the UK government replaced a lot of ageing coal-fired power stations with gas ones, partly as the end of the fight to close them down that brought on the huge miners’ strikes. Most of that reduction figure came from this switch.
Since 1997 when Labour came into power, if you include aviation then the UK’s emissions are actually rising.