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Defra report finds UK businesses cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2006, but international aviation emissions increased

Businesses reduced gas emissions in 2006 by 1.6 per cent, according to a Defra report released today, but related sectors such as transport, energy and aviation saw their emissions climb prompting environmentalists...

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