Saturday, March 27, 2010

Government emissions up despite recession

Commenting on provisional Government figures showing that public sector carbon emissions in 2009 were up on 2007 levels in spite of the recession, Liberal Democrat Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Simon Hughes said:

“It’s a travesty that while businesses and others are trying to pull their weight, Government and public sector emissions have actually increased in spite of the recession.

“No-one believes Labour will make the sustained emissions cuts we need when it’s taken a severe recession to cause real reductions.

“It is time to seriously invest in protecting our future. Only the Liberal Democrats have the bold plans we need to rebalance the economy and create green jobs, putting us on a path to a zero carbon Britain.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Couldn't agree more.
For the last decade I've worked in various industries ranging from Metals manufacturing to Telecommunications and have seen these companies striving to reduce and recycle at every step. Often for purely economic reasons, but in this case, who cares as long as the carbon footprint goes down...
For the last year, to ride out the recession and in search of some worthiness I started working at a major NHS trust, they recycle nothing, destroy and landfill working equipment in the name of policy, recruit needlessly despite having a recruitment freeze and then hold endless self congratulatory meetings.

12 months on and I admit, I am disillusioned with public service and disgusted how my tax money is spent.
We can and must do better than this.

Anonymous said...

....is this the only real area of growth in our Economy?