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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We're moving the UK to a more efficient, low-carbon economy to meet our legally binding climate change targets.

• From: Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 1 April 2016

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The 2008 Climate Change Act established the world’s first legally binding climate change target - to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% (from the 1990 baseline) by 2050.

Published 1 April 2016