Our energy future: Creating a low carbon economy

The energy White Paper: 'Our Energy Future - Creating a Low Carbon Economy', sets out a strategy for delivering sustainable reliable and affordable energy supplies through the competitive markets. The strategy puts the United Kingdom on a path to a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, with real progress by 2020, as well as mapping out an approach to ensure it has sufficient - and sufficiently diverse - energy sources in the future.

• Primary Source

United Kingdom: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sustainable development: UK priorities: Climate change and energy http://www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/government/progress/national/climate-change.htm

United Kingdom: Department of Trade and Industry: Energy: Our energy future: Creating a low carbon economy, 2003 http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file10719.pdf

United Kingdom: Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Fifth annual report on progress towards the 2003 energy white paper - creating a low carbon economy, July 2008 http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file46645.pdf

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