There some reporting on it here.
It’s certainly a start, and one would hope that it’s enforced rather than just being a bunch of targets that get ignored.

There’s been some interesting comment over at the PowerSwitch forum.

Here’s some quotes (shamelessly ripped out from postings).

Hmm … roughly a 30% cut in the next 13 years.
That’s a 2.3% reduction per year.
Now what’s a good guess at the coming oil (and gas?) annual supply decline rates? I think that 2.3% is at the “optimistic” end of the projections.
So .. is Miliband trying to limit energy use to match the reducing future availability of oil … rather than specifically trying to prevent Global Warming?

Milliband is preparing us for a Power Down. Climate change is an exceptable way to tell the people that things must change without enducing to much panic. Considering the government is aware that all NON OPEC countries would have depleted there oil by 2013 and we will be completley reliant on the middle east, how ya gonna tell the people?

Climate change!!!!

My family was discussing this last night.

We decided that it’s perceived as being “fair” to ask for cutbacks in the face of hurricanes, rising sea levels, drought risks etc.
Heroic Churchillian “backs to the wall” stuff.

However asking for the same cutbacks, “because the cupboard is bare” will only cause hoarding, distrust of the rich & govt, smuggling, crime etc.
It will also lead to “high energy holidays” where you can go abroad to countries without restrictions (but possibly high prices).
“Why should I give up my fuel just to let the fat civil servants and stockbrokers zoom up and down the motorways?”

The message DOES make a difference.

I happen to agree with this line of thinking. Whilst Climate Change is one of the reasons for this, I suspect the government isn’t THAT daft (hard to believe sometimes) and knows what’s going one. It also has a good idea of how the public at large would react.

Interesting times.