The IPPR, and RSPB have published their joint report on the feasibility and costs of achieving an 80% cut in carbon emissions in the UK by 2050, based on modelling from Imperial College and the PSI (using the models developed for the Stern Review and the Energy White Paper).

The UK has only managed to cut its GHG emissions by exporting them to other countries, according to research by Dieter Helm, a government advisor and professor at Oxford University. Including emissions from imported goods and international transport, its emissions have risen by a fifth since 1990.

This report, published by Greenpeace International was written by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. It puts agriculture's global contribution to GHG emissions at 17 and 32% of all human-induced GHG emissions, including land use changes. However, it also says that agriculture has a significant climate change mitigation potential, which could change the position of agriculture from the second largest emitter to a much smaller emitter or even a net sink. Mitigation options fall into the following categories: Cropland management Grazing management

Figures released by Defra on 31 January 2008 show that the UK's carbon dioxide emissions “stayed virtually the same” in 2006, dropping by just 0.1% to 554.5 million tonnes CO2. Overall greenhouse gases fell by 0.5% on the year before.