Adair Turner interview on targets

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The Government's new climate change watchdog Adair Turner turned up on Radio 4's today show this morning. Adair announced that the committee he chairs will be getting immediately stuck into a report on whether the 60% reduction for 2050 is enough. "We will report in December whether that
is adequate or whether a higher figure may be required," he said. Adair said that the "more stretching target" was the 26-32% reduction by 2020. "The difficulty is to do it with existing technologies," he said. Turner also defended the rolling five year targets that are part of the climate change bill as emissions will vary from year to year.