Is a target to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050 enough?
The proposed Climate Change Bill is the first of its kind in any country and according to Environment Secretary David Miliband, Britain is "leading by example".
Much of the Bill focuses on domestic buildings which account for 25% of UK emissions as opposed to aviation which only accounts for 5%.
What do you think of the Bill? Does it go far enough? Should we provide annual rather than five-year targets?
Your comments
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AJH Environmentalist from London says:Oct 11, 10:13
Tim from Cambs
America is doing a lot more than you might think, dont listen to the media on these issues.
we have allready lowered our CO2 output and have plans in place to continue this trend.Are proposed carbon plans enough?No -
Tim from Cambs says:Oct 10, 22:09
Doesn't matter what we do here when major polluters like America don't give a rats bum!
Are proposed carbon plans enough?Yes -
AJH from London says:Sep 22, 13:38
Kay from Scotland
Hi Kay hows your bit of scotland doing?
re the Chinese, there are some good noises comming from there I think a large part of China is very aware of the environmental problems they are causing and they are showing some commitment to clean energy, if I remember 14% renewable by 2012 a good start. I think they will surprise us when they get moving on the environment, they certainly are a dynamic lot, and when they get down to somthing they sure do.
In another way it would be great if we made environmental trade agreements, we will only trade with counrties activly improving there Environment, as we have already sorted out any environmental/polution problems we could offer know how as a carrot.
It's fantasic to see what they are doing in California, I keep up with things out there on Utube.Are proposed carbon plans enough?No -
Kay from Scotland says:Sep 21, 23:34
Hi AJ
Long time......
Of course the uk could reduce emissions considerably as we're importing more from countries such as China and India who have substantially increased their emissions as they manufacture the goods we import.
We can hardly claim we're leading the rest of the world in emission reduction, when in reality, we're just shifting the problem to other countries, can we?
How's business anyway? Are you into wave power yet?Are proposed carbon plans enough?No -
AJH from London says:Sep 6, 01:19
Michael Lee from Mansfield
so one tv program and you think you know it all, do you think important science is aired on TV?
If you really want to know whats going on have a look at the Ippc web site, *******www.ipcc.ch/Are proposed carbon plans enough?No
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