Energy - the changing climate

Publication Year

2000

Document Status

Archived

Abstract

Advocates a transformation in the use of energy in the UK to counter climate change. As a contribution to global efforts to prevent excessive climate change, the Royal Commission recommends that the UK should plan to reduce by 60% over the next 50 years the amount of carbon dioxide it produces by burning fossil fuels. Success would necessitate a reversal of the previous trend of growing energy use. The report explores what this will mean for industry and households, and highlights how government policies need to change.

Document History

This document has been archived by its original publisher. To be read with The UK Government response to the royal commission on environmental pollution's twenty-second report: Energy - the changing climate. Cm 5766 (2003).

ISBN

9780101474924

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