Background
Since the mid 1980s, energy consumption by Northern Ireland public organisations has been monitored annually against an agreed set of targets. Over the years these targets have evolved in line with changing priorities and policies.
The current targets for the Public Sector estate were established as a result of the 1999 Climate Change Programme (which embodied the agreements contained in the Kyoto Protocol) and the 2003 White Paper “Our Energy Future – creating a Low Carbon Economy”.
While the targets in these policy papers do not automatically apply to the devolved administrations, in summer 2004 the then Minister, Ian Pearson MP, endorsed three of the targets as applying to the Public Sector estate in Northern Ireland.
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