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1. Britain seeks leadership role with ambitious greenhouse-gas targets.

Author

Masood, Ehsan

Subjects
*GREENHOUSE gases, *GOVERNMENT policy, *GOVERNMENT policy on climate change
Abstract

Looks at Britain's Labour government's attempt to take the high ground in the climate change debate when it confirmed a pre-election promise to cut United Kingdom greenhouse-gas emissions to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2010. The praise by John Prescott, secretary of state for superministry combining environment, transport and the regions, of his predecessor's attempts to raise the profile of environmental issues.

Published
1997
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2. Clobbered over carbon.

Author

Sampson, Ben

Subjects
*GOVERNMENT policy on climate change, *GOVERNMENT policy, *GREENHOUSE gases, *EMISSION control, *ELECTRIC automobiles, *NUCLEAR power plants
Abstract

The article reports on the initiative of the Committee on Climate Change to deal the climate changes issue in Great Britain. It states that the committee has launched its report that contains reduce greenhouse gas emissions policy including a 30% emission reduction by 2020, using 1.7 million electric cars and three new nuclear power stations. However, the most disturbing policy for industrial sector is the added carbon leakage that is an unintentional consequence of trading schemes and policies.

Published
2009

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