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Public 'misled' Over Emissions Statistics

INDEPENDENT UK -  Ministers have misled the public about Britain’s reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions, the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) said today. The authority’s chairman, Sir Michael Scholar, said the presentation of the most recent carbon dioxide data by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was “unsatisfactory” and that changes should be made in the way in which it is presented in future. The use of “carbon credits” bought under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to represent actual British emissions cuts could give a false impression of progress, he said. Read More