{"id":38556,"date":"2014-02-04T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8d6617c8f6fed4b011653fa07b5e59f7"},"modified":"2014-02-04T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:36:40","slug":"news-story-secretary-of-state-comment-on-the-uk-meeting-its-first-carbon-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38556","title":{"rendered":"News story: Secretary of State comment on the UK meeting its first carbon budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State Edward Davey said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached an important milestone today. The UK has met its first carbon budget, which is the first step in fulfilling our commitment to cut Britain\u2019s emissions by 80% to 2050. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increase in emissions in 2012, compared to 2011, is of course worrying \u2013 but it needs to be put in the context of higher gas costs that made coal a more attractive fuel for electricity generation, and an increase in residential gas use due a very cold winter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen investment has been booming in the UK, with renewable electricity generation doubling and \u00a331bn of renewable energy investment announced since 2010. Now with the Energy Act 2013, we can look forward not just to hitting our renewable targets for 2020, but beating them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has met its first carbon budget, which is the first step in fulfilling our commitment to cut Britain\u2019s emissions by 80% to 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}