A new report by Friends of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank, shows how the Government has only four years to cut carbon emissions if the UK is to play its part in tackling climate change.
The report is based on research carried out by The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester. It is the UK's first comprehensive route map to a low carbon economy.
The study shows the total amount of carbon dioxide the UK can emit between now and 2050. It also outlines what the Government could do - and when - to keep within this carbon budget.
The report describes how:
The report also maps out how homes, business and transport in the UK could change as a result.
For example by the 2030's we could expect to be living in a world where:
By 2050 the research envisages a world where:
'The future starts here..’
(PDF† - 2.8 M) Sept 2006.
20 page summary of the research.
'Living within a Carbon Budget’
(PDF† - 835K) Oct 2006.
The full report from the Tyndall Centre.
If you would like hard copies of the full report or the summary please let us know.
Friends of the Earth's The Big Ask campaign and The Co-operative Bank are calling on the Government to introduce a climate change law.
The law will commit the UK to making annual cuts in our carbon emissions as a first step towards implementing the route map.
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