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Carbon budgets are ‘fair’ says Lord Smith

Lord Smith of Finsbury, the Chairman of the Environment Agency (EA), said introducing a “personal carbon allowances” in the next 20 years could help the UK meet ambitious climate change targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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Posted on November 18, 2009 · in UK

Industry Eye: Drive to cut carbon emissions could bring stack of problems for British landowners

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The UK is now legally committed to bringing down carbon emissions to 34 per cent below their 1990 level by 2020 by using three five-year-long budget periods where the reductions can be monitored.
Two weeks ago the Climate Change Committee, the official climate change watchdog, warned that a “step change” was needed in the pace of UK emissions reductions if we are to stick to these tough carbon budgets.

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Posted on November 8, 2009 · in UK

INTERVIEW-UK ‘carbon budgets’ seen as model for others

* Other nations could imitate British carbon cuts-Porritt

* But British government promises more than it delivers

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO, July 25 (Reuters) – The world can learn from a British plan for “carbon budgets” to fight climate change even though London often promises more than it delivers, a senior government adviser said.

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Posted on July 27, 2009 · in UK