Update to Course Material

NEBOSH National Diploma in Environmental Management - Element 15

The affected paragraph appears under the section entitled ‘Reduction of Energy Use and Carbon Emissions’ and then in the section entitled ‘International and National Control Strategies for Carbon Dioxide Emissions’. You should replace the penultimate paragraph under ‘International Control Strategies’ with the following:

‘The UK is a key signatory of the Kyoto Protocol and has developed many climate change initiatives, e.g. the Climate Change Act 2008 was developed from the Energy White Paper 2003, with the aim of providing a framework for a mandatory 80% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from the UK by 2050 in comparison with 1990 levels, and a reduction in CO2 emissions of at least 26% by 2020. (This latter target is likely to be amended to a target for all greenhouse gas emissions rather than CO2.) The UK is currently on course to meet its Kyoto aim for the limitation of the basket of greenhouse gases. Although the UK’s emissions of these gases have decreased, annual net carbon dioxide emissions have risen by around 2%.’