Britain set to drop emissions targets for business

The Government’s plans for tackling climate change – to be announced on Tuesday – will be the “acid test” of whether it is really serious about protecting the environment, a leading campaigner claimed yesterday.

The climate change review programme will set out how the Government proposes to deal with the problem that Britain is producing rising quantities of greenhouse gases. The review was ordered 15 months ago by the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, as it became increasingly clear that the UK is way off course from its self-imposed target to reduce the emission of greenhouses by 20 per cent of the 1990 level by 2010.

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