Carbon, cost and consequences
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We have a short-term goal of cutting our CO2 emissions by 26 per cent and delivering 15 per cent of our total energy from renewable sources by 2020, and a longer-term one of reducing CO2 emissions by between 60 and 80 per cent by 2050.
These UK targets will be overlaid by legally binding targets at EU level, to be achieved by 2020.
Much of the responsibility for achieving these ambitious targets will fall on the energy supply industry at a time when it is replacing around a third of its curren...
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