The UK is aiming to reduce our 1990 CO2 emission by 12.5% by 2010 by all sorts or techniques and by 26% by 2020, we are apparently ahead of Kyoto targets at the moment. Fantastic, but what is the point, if other large territories are doing the opposite? To put this into context it will take about six months for China to wipe out all UK reductions that are planned for the next ten years, take a look at the graph below which makes the point I think. China will build another two Coal fired power stations and neutralise what we have done. "But we are giving a lead to the world" is often the counter to this argument, well maybe?
http://www.confusedaboutenergy.co.uk/index.php/world-energy-issues/energy-consumption-worldwide
Interestingly the labour MP made the only valid point and that was that Obama will make a big difference to all of this. Interestingly the biggest difference the UK and the USA will make in the short term is that in a recessional world, manufacture and consumption will reduce and this will have a much larger effect on CO2 emissions than any great planned strategies.
And another thing! The UK adds bio fuels grown in Brazil from sugar cane to boost its “local” green credentials, but how can surplanting food crops or forest make and sense in a global context.
http://www.confusedaboutenergy.co.uk/index.php/world-energy-issues/oil-from-crops
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