U.K. Discloses Progress in Fighting Climate Change

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LONDON, UK -- A government report released earlier this month shows that the United Kingdom will fall short of its 2010 goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

But the government said it is still on track to nearly double its Kyoto target of reducing total greenhouse gases 12.5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

In terms of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most often cited to cause climate change, the U.K. wanted to reduce emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2010. A report from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates that in two years, emissions will measure in at only 15.5 percent below 1990 levels.

"The domestic goal was always designed to be stretching," the report said, adding that the Committee on Climate Change must advise the government on its "consistency with their advice on the 2008-2012 budgetary period."

By 2020, CO2 emissions could fall as much as 26 percent below 1990 levels when results of the European Union Emissions Trading System are factored in, according to "UK Climate Change Programme: Annual Report to Parliament, July 2008."

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