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Fri 20 January 2006 View all news
The Commission for Sustainable Development has challenged the leadership being provided by the UK Government on climate change in a critical report ‘Leading by Example? Not Exactly’ published in December. The report makes clear that the UK is way off reaching its target on reducing CO2 emissions by 20% by 2010 and that emissions have increased by 9% since 1999. The CSD report is intended as a warning to Government that more radical action is needed to persuade the public to change their lifestyles, including its affinity to the car. At the launch of the report Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the CSD recommended raising the price of petrol. The Chancellor has however already stated in the pre-budget Report that he will freeze petrol duty in April.
The report also acknowledges a number of areas of progress including the achievement of Government target that 10% of its fleet of cars to be alternatively fuelled. However concerns were raised that “it’s all far too piecemeal,” said Porritt. “Government needs to urgently ramp up its efforts to get sustainable development to where it should be: at the core of all its operations.”
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