An agreement has been reached among cabinet ministers to accept a legally binding “green deal” that will commit Britain to strongly reduce its carbon emissions over the next two decades. The green deal was recommended by the independent Committee on Climate Change, which was led by David Kennedy. The deal will, if carried out successfully, fulfill Cameron’s promise of leading the greenest government in history.
The target is to have reduced carbon emissions by 60% in 2030 compared to 1990, which will also set Britain on a course to have emissions reduced by 80% in 2050. In order to meet this target, multiple policies will be enforced. 40% of UK’s power should come from natural sources and 31% of new cars should be electric, part of carbon emission still made will be stored underground.
Before reading this article I had the image of the fight against climate change that it was a process going extremely slowly as a result of the huge interest worldwide in energy production that does produce carbon emission. The changes that according to the article will be the result of this green deal seem very significant to me and do inspire hope.
As with Cameron’s commitment to set a statutory minimum of 0.7% of national income to be spend on official development assistance, I think this a wonderful plan and I’m surprised to see these changes being made by a conservative led government. I would be interested to see Labour's, or specifically Ed Miliband's response to this.
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