{"id":391,"date":"2017-03-10T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:55:21","slug":"from-the-web-uk-carbon-emissions-at-lowest-level-since-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/10\/from-the-web-uk-carbon-emissions-at-lowest-level-since-the-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: UK carbon emissions at lowest level since the 19th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1164\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM.png 1164w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM-1024x530.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-10-at-3.39.08-PM-500x259.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The assessment suggests carbon emissions in 2016 were about 381m tonnes, putting the UK\u2019s carbon pollution at its lowest level \u2013 apart from during coal mining disputes in the 1920s \u2013 since 1894.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon emissions in 2016 are about 36% below the reference year of 1990, against which legal targets to cut climate pollution are measured.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/06\/uk-carbon-emissions-drop-to-lowest-level-since-19th-century-study-finds?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong> <em>(via The Guardian)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assessment suggests carbon emissions in 2016 were about 381m tonnes, putting the UK\u2019s carbon pollution at its lowest level \u2013 apart from during coal mining disputes in the 1920s \u2013 since 1894. Carbon emissions in 2016 are about 36% below the reference year of 1990, against which legal targets to cut climate pollution are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/10\/from-the-web-uk-carbon-emissions-at-lowest-level-since-the-19th-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: UK carbon emissions at lowest level since the 19th century&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}