%0 Book %1 IPPR2007 %A Lockwood, Matthew %A Bird, Jenny %A Alvarez, Raquel %D 2007 %K centralgovernment climate localgov strategy prj-sustainability %T 2050 Vision: How can the UK play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change? %U http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=572 %X Climate science suggests that countries like the UK should be aiming to make reductions in carbon emissions of at least 80 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050, if we are to avoid a 2 degree centigrade global warming above pre-industrial levels. As a result, there are calls for the Government to adopt this target in the Climate Change Bill, going beyond its current stated target of a 60 per cent cut. This report aims to provide a rigorous study of the feasibility and costs of reaching an 80 per cent carbon emissions reduction in the UK - something that has not been assess until now. It draws on modelling work, commission in partnership with WWF-UK and the RSPB, to produce technology scenarios and cost estimates for achieving emissions reductions of this order.

@book{IPPR2007, abstract = {Climate science suggests that countries like the UK should be aiming to make reductions in carbon emissions of at least 80 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050, if we are to avoid a 2 degree centigrade global warming above pre-industrial levels. As a result, there are calls for the Government to adopt this target in the Climate Change Bill, going beyond its current stated target of a 60 per cent cut. This report aims to provide a rigorous study of the feasibility and costs of reaching an 80 per cent carbon emissions reduction in the UK - something that has not been assess until now. It draws on modelling work, commission in partnership with WWF-UK and the RSPB, to produce technology scenarios and cost estimates for achieving emissions reductions of this order.}, added-at = {2010-08-10T21:32:30.000+0200}, author = {Lockwood, Matthew and Bird, Jenny and Alvarez, Raquel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23cab38230f9f5d7b685b558e41db1575/nicoj}, interhash = {41e0a6c8b787ba6d0915fc642066ea5e}, intrahash = {3cab38230f9f5d7b685b558e41db1575}, keywords = {centralgovernment climate localgov strategy prj-sustainability}, timestamp = {2012-08-06T22:08:36.000+0200}, title = {2050 Vision: How can the UK play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change?}, url = {http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=572}, year = 2007 }