So the Dept of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published its plan for cutting carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and 34% by 2020 (vs 1990 levels). The "plan" is to create more than 1.2 million green jobs (eg installing insulation), to improve vehicle emissions standards and to subsidise small-scale renewable electricity production through feed-in tariffs.
All good, but it pales into insignificance when set against the current programme for airport expansion, roadbuilding and the like.
What's more the DECC report says a 21% reduction in emissions has already been achieved, but that's complete nonsense - all we've done is export our emissions to China by closing factories here and opening them there. And aviation and shipping emissions are not included in the calculation. If you include our outsourced emissions and aviation/shipping then our emissions trajectory is heading remorselessly upwards.
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