The UK has both international (Kyoto Protocol) and domestic (Climate Change Act 2008) targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A report showing how the UK is performing against its emissions targets is available below:
The EU as a whole also has greenhouse gas emissions Kyoto Protocol targets to meet by 2012. A summary report of EU progress towards the Kyoto Protocol target is available below:
The derivation of the base year level for reporting towards the Kyoto Protocol target (including the UK’s share of the EU target) and the UK Carbon Budgets can be found in the table below:
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