Date published: 2007/08/23
The BBC says:
Further promises by the UK government to meet greenhouse gas targets look unlikely to be met, a think tank says.
Cambridge Econometrics was one of the first to forecast that the government would miss its target to cut CO2 by 20% for 2010.
Ministers rejected the think tank's claims for several years before finally conceding it was correct.
The latest report says at the current rate of progress this target will not even be reached by 2020.
By then, the government is theoretically striving to cut CO2 by a minimum of 26%.
The report says achieving this will need much stricter policies - particularly to tackle emissions from homes and from transport.
There is a gloomy forecast too on renewable energy - that the government will fail to meet its targets in both 2010 and 2015.
Is this news? It's hard to believe anyone in government believes in these targets. The targets are mainly spin to keep the so-called environmentalists from bleating even louder than they already bleat. Of course any forecast 13 years out is likely to be wrong. So who knows, the ruling elite might manage to trash the UK economy enough to make the government targets achievable.
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