§ Baroness Byfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the comment by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Ms Beckett), on 13 January (HC Deb, col. 426) that "If we continue as we are we will not be on track to meet the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions", what action they will take to achieve their targets. [HL880]
§ Lord WhittyThe 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.
The Government recognise that measures in addition to those contained in the UK climate change programme published in 2000 will be needed to achieve the domestic goal of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2010. The Government will consider potential possible new measures to deliver further emissions reductions as part of the current review of the UK climate change programme.
The review will also consider the action that the UK will need to take to ensure it is on course to make "real progress by 2020" towards the ambitious longer-term goal of reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as set out in the energy White Paper.