UK Government CO2e Targets & Seeing Through the Eco-hype
Guest blog by Robert Borruso, TGR Expert Trainer
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The profile of renewable technologies has been growing relentlessly over the past few years, spurred on by countless government initiatives and regulation. Some planning authorities now even insist that a proportion of all the energy used in any new development comes from renewables sources as a planning condition. With the latest targets for UK CO2e emission levels set at 34% below 1990 levels by 2020, and with the government’s own delivery plan containing plans to cut CO2 emissions from the power sector by 50%, you could start to tentatively believe that the promise being made since the early 90s by some green groups that with the right support for the technology the UK could lead the world in low carbon energy production, might now at last be coming true. Read the rest of this entry »
