Carbon Dioxide Emissions

HC Deb 06 February 1992 vol 203 cc230-1W

2005. Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the initiatives undertaken by his Department to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and indicate the estimated reduction for each initiative by(a) 2000 and (b)

Mr. Baldry

The Environment White Paper "This Common Inheritance" (Cm 1200) set out the Government's strategy and a first tranche of measures towards Britain's conditional target of returning CO₂ emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2005. The first year report (Cm 1655) set out progress with this strategy.

The savings from this first tranche of measures have been taken into account in the latest scenarios for United Kingdom CO₂ emissions announced by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Energy, on 6 December 1991. Details of these new scenarios are being prepared for publication.