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Jun052009
UK Expecting to Show a 23% Decrease in Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Next Year
June 5, 2009 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
World Environment Day 2009. Stock Image.
LONDON- The United Kingdom is on track to almost double its greenhouse gas reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a new report by the country’s Department of Energy and Climate Change given to the United Nations.
The report’s findings predict that by 2010, the country’s greenhouse emissions will be 23 percent below levels recorded in 1990, “well in excess of the target of 12.5 percent set out under the Kyoto agreement.”
The report to the UN outlines the policies and programs that the UK has put in place, including:
- the Climate Change Act of 2008.
- energy efficiency programs.
- emissions targets for road vehicles, aviation, and industry in Europe.