VoteClimate: Wood: Transport - 4th March 2010

Wood: Transport - 4th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Wood: Transport.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-04/debates/10030476000010/WoodTransport

Harry Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what consideration is given to the average length of lorry journey in transporting wood from the processing plant to the international port in assessing the carbon footprint of biomass imports. ( 320520 )

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Joan Ruddock

However, the Environment Agency are developing a tool to enable power generators to determine the carbon emissions associated with their use of biomass. This tool will allow users to model Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions according to feedstock type, agriculture practices and transport mode.

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