24 October 2007
The UK is firmly committed to meeting its emissions reduction targets to combat climate change, the PM has said.
Responding to MPs during his weekly Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament, the PM said that the Government was looking at the possibility that its target of a 60 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 was "not ambitious enough". He also said that the UK was also in full support of an EU-wide aim of generating 20 percent of all energy through renewable sources by 2020.
He explained:
"I believe that the combination of personal responsibility, public investment in energy saving and the new energy policy that we are adopting will be the best way to secure our climate change agreements. We are also absolutely committed to the European 20 percent renewables target."
Measures proposed on green energy include a barrage on the river Severn and extensions to onshore and offshore wind farms. The Government plans to publish a Climate Change Bill in the near future following consultations that ended in June this year.
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