UK set to miss own target of 20% CO2 cuts by 2010: Beckett

London (Platts)--8Dec2004

The UK government is set to miss its own target of cutting carbon dioxide
emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2010, it said Wednesday. "We will not,
on the basis of current policies alone, achieve our ambitious 2010 domestic
goal of a 20% cut in carbon dioxide emissions," Margaret Beckett, the
environment secretary, said Wednesday. But the UK is on track to meet its
international obligations under the Kyoto treaty. This obliges the UK to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Emissions of
the six main greenhouse gases have already fallen by 14% since 1990 and are
projected to be 21% below 1990 levels in 2010. That shows the government has
had more success in cutting other emissions than it has in cutting CO2
emissions. The UK has a further target for 2050: to cut emissions by 60%. That
is one of the four keystones of its 2003 Energy White Paper. The government
launched a review of its climate change program Wednesday.

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