News UK January 2008

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• CO2 emissions higher than Government admit, Friends of the Earth, January 31 ^[1] FoE claim the figures would be 6 per cent higher if pollution from international flights was included and is calling on the Government to include these missing emissions in the Climate Change Bill. "Aviation is the fastest growing source of emissions in the UK and has twice the climate impact because the gases are emitted at altitude. Yet the Government has left aviation emissions out of the Climate Change Bill currently being debated in parliament." The Environmental Audit Committee in Parliament has also questioned the Government's logic in leaving emissions out of the Climate Change Bill. topic

• Carbon dioxide (CO2 emissions) "virtually the same", January 31^[2] The final figures for all greenhouse gas emissions in the UK in 2006 show that total greenhouse gas emissions were down 0.5 per cent on 2005 levels, while carbon dioxide (CO2), which makes up about 85 per cent of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, stayed virtually the same (a 0.1 per cent fall). The biggest decrease in CO2 emissions was in the residential sector, with a fall of 4 per cent on 2005 levels, along with a decrease of 1.6 per cent in the business sector. Other sectors increased, including energy supply (up by 1.5 per cent) and transport (up by 1.3 percent). topic

• Launch of Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, January 25 ^[3] topic

• Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A Cross Government Strategy for England published, January 23 ^[4] topic

• Community contracts to be piloted in twelve areas across the country, January 22 ^[5] topic

• B&Q to stop selling patio heaters, January 22 ^[6] topic

• Scientists urge Government: tougher CO2 cuts, January 21 ^[7] topic

• Committee calls for moratorium on biofuels, January 21 ^[8]

• Decline in the condition of lowland heaths, January 21 ^[9] topic

• Carbon savings from councils encouraging local people to turn to their website for routine transactions are significantly in excess of the negative impact of extra IT server capacity. Savings nationally could come to over 14,000 tonnes of CO2 or 5,362 return air flights from Heathrow to Malaga each year. Communities and Local Government, January 17 ^[10] topic, topic

• Government needs to drive biofuels in right direction warns Royal Society, January 14 ^[11]

• Industry insiders attack government's second nuclear consultation, January 4 ^[12] topic

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References

1. ↑ Friends of the Earth, January 31
2. ↑ Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, January 31
3. ↑ Friends of the Earth, January 25
4. ↑ Department of Health, January 23
5. ↑ Communities and Local Government, January 22
6. ↑ Friends of the Earth, January 22
7. ↑ WWF-UK, January 21
8. ↑ Environmental Audit Committee, January 21
9. ↑ Natural England, January 21
10. ↑ Communities and Local Government, January 17
11. ↑ Royal Society, January 14
12. ↑ Greenpeace, January 4