According to some bureaucrat named Turner, UK 'should cut greenhouse gases by 80 per cent'

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The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century, the Government's climate change committee recommended today.

The committee said a more stringent target than the 60 per cent cut currently in the Climate Change Bill was needed, because new information suggested the dangers of global warming were greater than previously thought.
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Lord Turner said: "We based the target on what the science says but also double-checking that this is achievable and affordable, and we're absolutely confident that it is."

Mr Miliband, who was appointed to the role of Energy and Climate Change Secretary on Friday when the new department was created in the Cabinet reshuffle, said he welcomed the report.

"We need to act now to avoid dangerous climate change and the action we take must be guided by experts. That's why we asked Adair Turner to examine the level of our target," he said.
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The Tories' new shadow energy and climate change secretary Greg Clark said he was "delighted" at Lord Turner's proposals.
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Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, which has led the campaign for a Climate Change Bill, said the committee's recommendation was "fantastic news".

Greenpeace's chief policy adviser Benet Northcote said 80 per cent was the level of emissions cuts needed to combat climate change, but warned plans for new coal-fired power stations and a third runway at Heathrow would "doom the target to failure even before it has been adopted".

David Nussbaum, chief executive of WWF-UK said the conservation charity was "delighted" that the committee recognised emissions from aviation and shipping had to be included in any credible target.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell: Information from Answers.com

Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955) is a British businessman, academic and chair of the Pensions Commission. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'.

A Glenalmond College and Cambridge University graduate (Gonville and Caius College) and past president of the Cambridge Union, Turner later pursued a career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co and then became Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

He lectures part-time at the London School of Economics.

Since 2002, he has chaired a UK government enquiry into pensions. In 2007, he succeeded Frances Cairncross as Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council.