Britain set to miss climate change targets

That’s the bad news from a new report released today:

Our forecasts show that the government is set to miss not only its 20 percent carbon reduction goal by 2010, but also its declared target of obtaining 10 percent of UK electricity supply from renewable sources … by 2010 and 15 percent by 2015.

Instead it will get just five percent from renewables by 2010, rising to 12.5 percent by 2015, the report said.

Not good news at all for tackling climate change.

UPDATE: But then the Liberal Democrats got to work during the 2010-15 coalition government, and the actual figure hit 30% in 2017.