You can download the data for yourself on the DECC website. The picture looks better for 2009, but DECC attribute the improvement to warmer weather in 2009 and the full dataset won't be published for another year or so.
Thursday 25 March 2010
Household CO2 is 500 years off target
The latest CO2 statistics were published today. Not good news. Residential emissions grew by 3 million tonnes in 2008, despite the economy being in recession for most of the year. This is why we say that current policies are not working in this sector: the average reduction in household CO2 emissions since 2002, when the flagship EEC/CERT program began, is now 0.3% per year, meaning it would take 500 years to achieve an 80% reduction. That's supposed to be our target for 2050, by the way.
You can download the data for yourself on the DECC website. The picture looks better for 2009, but DECC attribute the improvement to warmer weather in 2009 and the full dataset won't be published for another year or so.
You can download the data for yourself on the DECC website. The picture looks better for 2009, but DECC attribute the improvement to warmer weather in 2009 and the full dataset won't be published for another year or so.
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