BWEA, the leading UK renewable energy trade association, today strongly welcomed the Committee on Climate Change's interim report. Speaking about the Committee's recommendation to set an objective of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, BWEA chief executive Maria McCaffery said:

"This new target underlines the urgency of action to deliver clean, sustainable energy now if we are to keep global temperatures within acceptable limits. Only renewable energy, and wind power in particular, can get us swiftly onto the path of decarbonising our electricity supply, which we must achieve over the next 20 years."

"We must redouble our efforts to overcome the remaining barriers to renewable energy or we risk overshooting the necessary emission trajectory right from the start," concluded McCaffery.