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» Monday, August 13, 2007

Climate Change

Asked about the Guardian story today regarding officials briefing the Government over climate change targets being "completely unreachable", the PMS replied that the UK was committed to developing renewable energy. In the recent energy White Paper that was published, we had aimed to see renewable energy increase three-fold to 15% by 2015.

Asked if we would meet targets set, the PMS said that it was no secret that these were ambitious targets, and it would be a major challenge. However, that was not only for the UK, but was for all EU member states, and people should remember that the UK was one of the few EU states that was on course the meet our Kyoto targets of cutting carbon emissions. It was now for the Commission to propose how the EU-wide target be met by all member states.

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