'Fair carbon targets' plea dairies
Government proposals to tighten carbon targets under the dairy sector's Climate Change Agreement (CCA) must be fair, according to Gerry Sweeney, chairman of Dairy Energy Savings (DES), which administers the CCA on behalf of the dairy processing sector.
While other sectors are seeing their targets for carbon emission savings raised by 4% per tonne of product in 2010, the dairy industry is facing a hefty 11% hike, said Sweeney. If the proposals go through, they will raise the target for savings in the dairy sector to 28% of 1999 emissions.
"Since the CCA system was set up in 2000, the dairy sector has managed to lower its carbon emissions by significantly more than the target," said Sweeney. "These new proposals amount to moving the goalposts."
Dairy Energy Savings is instead calling for more modest tightening of the carbon targets, in line with other sectors. In the meantime, dairy companies remain committed to honouring the pledges they made in the Liquid Milk Roadmap, published in early May. In this document they agreed to exceed CCA targets and source 10% of non-transport energy from renewable sources by 2015.
Contact: Dairy Energy Savings; Tel: 020 7486 7244
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