Carbon Reduction Delivery Plan

This Carbon Reduction Delivery Plan sets out the approach that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will take to its first three Carbon Budgets in the period 2008 to 2022. It explains the purpose of the Carbon Budgets, their scope and level; as well as the actions that the FCO is taking to meet them. It also touches upon some carbon reduction activities being undertaken by the FCO, which are currently outside of the scope of Carbon Budgets but have the same objective of reducing emissions of climate changing green-house gases.

The Climate Change Act of 2008 established a legally binding target of reducing the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050 and by 34% by 2020. The UK's route map for achieving this was set out in the Government's Low Carbon Transition Plan, published in July 2009.

That plan also introduced successive five year Carbon Budgets for Departments. The First Carbon Budget period is 2008-2012. This plan shows that, although the FCO's emissions are likely to exceed our First Carbon Budget, a substantial programme of carbon reduction activity is in hand to bring the FCO's emissions down to a level commensurate with future Carbon Budgets.

 Carbon Reduction Delivery Plan