Climate Change (Hansard, 23 July 2004)

HC Deb 23 July 2004 vol 424 c802W 802W

§ Mr. Bellingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the UK Climate Change Programme targets. [185449]

§ Mr. Morley
The UK remains on course to achieve its Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2008–12. Provisional estimates suggest that greenhouse gas emissions in 2003 were about 14 per cent. below the baseline.
The Government has a separate goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2010. Emissions of carbon dioxide for 2003 are provisionally estimated at about seven per cent. lower than in 1990.