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  Green Taxes - Amendment
  
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  Having removed the <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-10-16&number=305">original motion for debate</a>, those voting Aye accepted the following Parliamentary motion:</p>
  
  <blockquote>This House welcomes the UK's climate change programme which has already put the UK on course to <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,2002941,00.html">exceed its Kyoto target of a 12.5%</a> in 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2008-12 and make further progress towards the Government's ambitious target to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010; recognises the vital contribution of the Climate Change Levy, which has already saved <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4832880.stm">28 million tonnes of carbon emissions</a> and by 2010 will be reducing carbon emissions by over seven million tonnes per year; congratulates the Government on exceeding its recycling target supported by the Landfill Tax and Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme and contributing to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; commends introduction in the UK of the world's first international emissions trading scheme capping emissions from power stations and energy-intensive industries; further welcomes the Government's proposals for the second phase of the scheme in the UK; further welcomes the Government's <a href="http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/page31995.html">energy review</a>, which proposes measures to save up to a further 25 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2020 and to put the UK economy on a path to a 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050; congratulates the Government on its commitment to delivering a strong economy based on high and stable levels of growth and employment as well as high standards of environmental care; and calls upon the Government to continue to put environmental protection, locally, nationally and globally at the heart of its policies."</blockquote>
  
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