UK emissions cut 22% on 1990 levels The UK has reduced its emissions by almost a quarter on 1990 levels, according to the first annual emissions report based on the carbon budgets system.

Emissions have been cut 22 percent within the past 20 years, with the aim of making a reduction of 80 percent on 1990 levels by 2050.

On the news, energy and climate change minister Joan Ruddock said that targets beyond 2020 will be met through policies to develop green-collar jobs, investment in clean energy and making homes more energy-efficient.

Reductions have exceeded the targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol, which stipulated that the UK cut its emissions by 12.4 percent below 1990 levels.

The protocol states that countries must meet these goals through domestic measures.

Last year, the first carbon budgets were announced alongside the autumn's fiscal budget, when the government invested an additional £1.4 billion into the low carbon sector.

Among the targeted areas were carbon capture and storage, support for renewable energy developers and investment in energy-efficiency measures across all sectors.

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