Summary
Worst offenders included the Department for Transport whose emissions increased by 50 per cent between 2003 and 2006; the Department for Constitutional Affairs, which saw its emissions increase by 66 per cent between 2000 and 2006; the Department for Work and Pensions, second-biggest consumer of energy in the civil estate, which increased its emissions by 14 per cent between 2000 and 2006. It traced the apparent cuts back to the Ministry of Defence whose individual submissions to the E AC had claimed a 7 per cent reduction in energy consumption and a 6 per cent cut in carbon emissions.
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Whitehall's Hot Air
While Gordon Brown spouts hot air on cutting Britain's carbon emissions, his civil servants have been generating a 12 per cent increase in CO2 since 2000.
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