Green Barometer III Report Out Now

The Energy Saving Trust launched the third Green Barometer report yesterday, Monday 26 November 2007.

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The report details all UK council areas emissions, outlined in a league table format, showing the UK's biggest and lowest carbon wasters. Top emitters in the report are council areas in Northern Ireland, taking 18 of the bottom 20 positions. Mainly due to the reliance of personal transportation methods over public transport, with in most cases CO2 emissions from vehicles equaling almost 50% of CO2 emissions from households.

Top Emitters

• Down (14.53t)
• Omagh (14.20t)
• Magherafelt (14.15t)
• Ballymena (14.08t)
• Antrim (13.95t)

Lowest Emitters

• City of London (4.65t)
• Camden (4.87t)
• Westminster (4.92t)
• Tower Hamlets (4.98t)
• Islington (5.19t)

In addition the report looks at measures that can be taken to reduce CO2 emissions, attitudes towards energy saving and segmenting homes on a street-by-street basis to individually target areas based on which can benefit the most.

The Green Barometer Reports are always an interesting read, if not for the quality information but for the document design. The addition of the league of worst emitters will encourage a wrath of energy saving and could become quite a competitive annual table showing progress by area in reductions or gains in percentage terms. The council areas at the bottom will be trying to get their names off the bottom after the bad press Down has received in the last few days with local and national media attention, it will also encourage greenies in those areas to become community changers.