Friday, June 10, 2011

Coalition on course to miss carbon emissions targets, says CBI (Guardian)

Powerful business lobbyist says ministers failing on 12 of 13 environmental
indicators after series of policy U-turns

The UK government is failing on almost every environmental indicator, the
Confederation of British Industry warned on Wednesday, as ministers have
damaged business confidence and provided scant detail on their plans.

The CBI tracks government aims on the environment and climate change through
an online tracker, by which it judges the success of announced measures
against the progress that needs to be made to hit the UK's targets.

But in the latest climate change tracker, ministers are shown to have failed
on 12 out of 13 key indicators.

Improving energy efficiency in buildings has been too slow, while greenhouse
gas emissions from transport and industry are likely to remain high as new
policies are not taking effect, the CBI said.

Katja Hall, chief policy director at the CBI, said: "One year on from pledging
to be the 'greenest government ever', the coalition has still not delivered
the policy landscape needed to ensure we meet tough emissions targets.
Decisions being taken now will make or break the UK's low-carbon economy. Our
latest tracker shows that progress is failing to match the ...
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