Britain will fail to meet its 2010 target for cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the Government admitted yesterday.
The target of a 20 per cent cut in 1990 levels of CO2 by the end of this year is likely to be missed by a wide margin.
By the end of 2008, CO2 emissions had fallen by only 10 per cent. The figure is 13 per cent if it includes carbon credits bought from emission reduction programmes overseas.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: “We are not going to meet the 20 per cent target this year. The 2010 target was always designed to be stretching and has helped to drive the progress that has already been made.”
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