British Emissions Higher Than We Think
Greenhouse gas emissions in the UK are actually much worse than we think, reports BBC News Online. In fact the government’s new chief energy scientist, Professor David MacKay said they could be as much as twice as bad as the figures suggest.
He said that rather than greenhouse gas emissions declining since the 1990’s the UK’s energy footprint had increased. The reason for this, he said, was because goods that British people buy are now made in developing countries rather than in Britain and so we have exported our industry and our emissions.
He said the reason Chinese and Indian emissions were so high was that they were now manufacturing things for Britain therefore our true carbon footprint is actually twice as big as the figures show.
He suggested that Britain should increase its offer of emissions cuts at the climate talks in Copenhagen to compensate for this.
Source and further details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8283909.stm