Environment Secretary Miliband had the pleasure of announcing that Britain was on track to meet its commitment of cutting its green house gas emissions by almost double it’s Kyoto protocol target. Secretary Miliband commented “These figures confirm that we are on track to meet and exceed our Kyoto target. Based on these figures, our greenhouse gas emissions are 15.3 per cent below 1990 levels – 18.8 per cent when the effect of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is taken into account. That's already better than our Kyoto commitment of 12.5 per cent…With emissions trading, we will almost double our Kyoto target, with an estimated 23.6% reduction in greenhouse gases on 1990 levels by 2010.”