Download or read book Climate Change written by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This programme sets out the Government's policies and priorities for action on climate change in the UK and internationally. The first section examines the nature and scale of the challenge posed by climate change. It describes the existing international framework for action, including the G8 and EU meetings and resulting plans of action. The Government intends to build on these developments, and also try to influence the rapidly growing economies of India, China, Brazil and others so that they evolve as low-carbon economies. The major part of the report is concerned with the UK's attempt to deliver the Kyoto Protocol target of reducing emissions of six greenhouse gases by 12.5 per cent below base year levels over the 2008-2012 period, and also the domestic goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010. Projections indicate that CO2 reduction by 2010 will only be some 10.6 per cent below the 1990 level. Sections on the UK emission inventory and projections, the strategy to reduce emissions, and the energy supply sector, are followed by chapters covering particular economic sectors: business; transport, domestic; agriculture and forestry; the public sector. Among policies outlined here are: encouragement of microgeneration and renewable sources of energy; investigation of carbon capture and storage; support for energy efficiency in business, local and central government; increase uptake of biofuels; include aviation in the emissions trading scheme for the EU from 2008; raise energy standards of new and refurbished buildings; introduce the Code for Sustainable Homes; strengthen consumer demand for energy efficiency. The Government also sets out its approach to encourage personal action, as citizens, consumers, motorists and business people. Provision of better information to the public, including an online service on the environmental impact of everyday products and services, will be supplemented by a plan for action on sustainable consumption by the end of 2006.
Download or read book Climate Change the UK Programme 2006 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains oral and written evidence taken before the Committee in their inquiry into the Government's Climate Change Programme announced in March 2006 (in its White Paper 'Tomorrow's Climate, Today's Challenge' Cm. 6764, ISBN 0101676425). It includes contributions from officials from Defra, the Confederation of British Industry, the UK Sustainable Development Commission, Greater London Authority and local authorities.
Download or read book Climate Change written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White paper.
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Download or read book The UK emissions trading scheme written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scheme is part of the Government's climate change programme, which is designed to secure significant reductions in UK greenhouse gas emissions, believed to cause global warming. Under the Scheme, companies are issued with allowances equal to their target emissions for the year, and at the end of the year must hold enough allowances to cover its actual emissions. A company can choose to reduce its actual emissions below its target (enabling it to sell excess allowances to other companies, or to save them for use in future years), to meet its target, or to buy extra allowances to cover any emissions in excess of its target amount. This NAO report examines the Scheme's origins, impact and wider benefits, based upon consultation with participating companies and other stakeholders, case studies involving four of the biggest companies involved, and advice of an expert panel and assistance from specialist consultants. Overall, the report concludes that the Scheme is a pioneering initiative that has encouraged participants to identify emissions reductions, and has potential to benefit the UK economy. However, the fact that the Scheme is a voluntary one has led to difficulties in attracting participants and setting demanding targets. A number of recommendations are made to improve the existing UK Scheme and to help develop European trading schemes, including raising the value obtained from incentive payments and ensuring lessons are learned from the experience of the Scheme in any further developments or in the design of new environmental trading schemes.
Download or read book Building a Low carbon Economy written by Great Britain. Committee on Climate Change and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change resulting from CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions poses a huge threat to human welfare. To contain that threat, the world needs to cut emissions by about 50 per cent by 2050, and to start cutting emissions now. A global agreement to take action is vital. A fair global deal will require the UK to cut emissions by at least 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. In this report, the Committee on Climate Change explains why the UK should aim for an 80 per cent reduction by 2050 and how that is attainable, and then recommends the first three budgets that will define the path to 2022. But the path is attainable at manageable cost, and following it is essential if the UK is to play its fair part in avoiding the far higher costs of harmful climate change. Part 1 of the report addresses the 2050 target. The 80 per cent target should apply to the sum of all sectors of the UK economy, including international aviation and shipping. The costs to the UK from this level of emissions reduction can be made affordable - estimated at between 1-2 per cent of GDP in 2050. In part 2, the Committee sets out the first three carbon budgets covering the period 2008-22, and examines the feasible reductions possible in various sectors: decarbonising the power sector; energy use in buildings and industry; reducing domestic transport emissions; reducing emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases; economy wide emissions reductions to meet budgets. The third part of the report examines wider economic and social impacts from budgets including competitiveness, fuel poverty, security of supply, and differences in circumstances between the regions of the UK.
Download or read book Beyond Stern written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is about how the Government: sets targets for reductions in UK green house gases; assess progress towards these targets by forecasting the likely levels of future emissions; choose policy instruments to deliver the requisite cuts in emissions; and revises its package of policies in the light of experience. It is two main parts, the first looks at the Climate Change Programme Review, whilst the second examines the proposed Climate Change Bill. The Climate Change Programme Review revealed a number of weaknesses in the UK climate change policy as it became apparent that the target of a 20% reduction in carbon emissions by 2010 would be missed. Revisions to the projection of emissions had not been done frequently enough, so by the time Ministers knew there were problems it was too late to introduce new measures. The programme is however likely to be rescued, somewhat, by Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which promises to deliver some real savings. The draft Climate Change Bill, alongside other developments such as the creation of the Office of Climate Change and requirements of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006, are broadly well designed and a far-reaching responses to these issues.
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Download or read book Emissions trading written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government has highlighted the importance of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in providing the cornerstone of its policy framework to tackle climate change. The Committee published its report on the Scheme (HCP 70, session 2006-07; ISBN 9780215032720) in March 2007, in which it made an assessment of the likely impact of the ETS to 2012 and its implication for the UK Climate Change programme. This report contains the Government's reply to the Committee's report, together with the Committee's thoughts on that reply. Amongst its findings, the Committee concludes that emissions trading can be very valuable, enabling emissions cuts to be made in the most economically efficient manner irrespective of location. However, their report raises ongoing concerns about i) the transparency of the reporting process on emissions trading and the risk that the complexities of such transactions might obscure whether they are reducing the full amount of emissions they ostensibly represent. It is especially important to get the transparency of reporting right at this stage, given the Government's plans under the forthcoming Climate Change Bill, to make use of international emissions trading within a national carbon budgeting system; and ii) the Government's presentation in some publications of the purchase of carbon credits by the UK as being, in practice, synonymous with reducing emissions within the UK, since buying emissions credits from other countries does not necessarily translate into cutting emissions, at home or abroad.
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Download or read book Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States written by U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Download or read book Climate Change the UK Programme 2006 written by Great Britain. Sustainable Development Commission and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Climate change written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 1688, session 2005-06
Download or read book Climate Change written by Great Britain. Dept. of the Environment and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 the UK Prime Minister and over 150 other heads of state or government committed their countries to working towards national strategies for the protection of our local, national and global environment. The four UK official strategies were published simultaneously: Sustainable development, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Forestry. They should be of interest to everyone concerned with or involved in the future of our environment throughout the world.
