U.K. will cut its CO2 emissions

SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The United Kingdom's senior science adviser said Friday his country will cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent unilaterally by 2050.

David King announced the new policy at a science meeting in Seattle, saying while the policy represents a difference with the United States government on the issue of global warming, "we would be very happy to discuss alternatives."

The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in Europe that has met the United Nations' climate change targets to return greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2000. In that year, U.K. emissions of greenhouse gases had fallen 13 percent below 1990 levels.