No 'Offsets' Says Climate Committee
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 4,
April 2011
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), said it was possible to meet the second "carbon budget", which dictates how much the country needs to cut its emission over five years, at a low cost and by domestic action alone.
In a letter to Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, CCC chairman Lord Adair said credits, which pay for action to cut carbon elsewhere in the world, should not be bought to cover UK emissions in the second budget, which runs from 2013 to 2017.
The committee has said that a range of measures must be taken at home in the second budget period, including installing loft insulation in more than six million homes, starting work on three new nuclear power plants and putting 620,000 electric cars on the road. Read the full report here.
Source: by Emily Beament, PA, The Independent, UK.
