| DECC announces plans to meet 2020 carbon reduction targets | In the news |
| 15 July 2009 | |
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The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan sets out the government’s route map to a low carbon country. It sets out how the UK will meet the target cut in emissions of 34 per cent (on 1990 levels) by 2020. A 21 per cent reduction has already been delivered – equivalent to cutting emissions entirely from four cities the size of London. The Transition Plan states that by 2020: • More than 1.2 million people will be in green jobs • 7 million homes will have benefited from whole house makeovers • More than 1.5 million households will be supported to produce their own clean energy • 40 per cent of electricity will be from low carbon sources, from renewables, nuclear and clean coal • We will be importing half the amount of gas that we otherwise would • The average new car will emit 40 per cent less carbon than now Link: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn081/pn081.aspx |
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