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The Minister for Climate Change Joan Ruddock has admitted that the individual will soon pay for their environmental impact.

“The Climate Change Bill will impose a legal cap on CO2 emissions, which will affect every aspect of life in the UK.”

“The Government has already undertaken a pre-feasability study on Personal Carbon Accounts. While there were no insurmountable technical problems identified, it would require huge investment with a somewhat uncertain outcome.

Although it appears attractive, and I myself am very interested in its potential, the study found very little public support. People are very suspicious of the technology that would be required to allocate and monitor the carbon accounts.”

It seems that it is now high time that we all cooperate and reduce our impact before we are lumbered with another tax.  It is also a concern that it is the less well off households that will be squeezed and to a far greater extent than the comparative effect on big businesses.

With the recent incompetencies in UK public offices which have led to the loss of numerous documents and data, we should be worried about the effectiveness of government monitoring and enforcement of personal carbon accounts.