Britain will fail it climate targets
28/3/2006 BBC “International trends” have blocked the road to missions reductions. So the worst-kept secret in UK climate circles is finally out in the open; as things stand, the government will not meet its cherished target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by the year 2010. Its review of climate change policy, which includes a small programme of new measures, makes explicit for the first time that many observers have suspected for years. “The package of existing and new policy measures in the programme are projected to reduce emissions to 15-8% below 1990 levels,” it says.