Pre-Budget Report 2003 Summary Leaflet | Protecting the environment

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The Government believes that economic prosperity must be achieved while protecting the environment to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, today and for future generations. It is committed to tackling global problems, such as climate change, and to improving the local environment in Britain's towns, cities and rural areas.

The Pre-Budget Report sets out the Government's plans for further action to improve the environment, including:

a new framework to ensure that duty incentives for alternative fuels reflect their environmental benefits and provide stability for producers;

consultation on reforms to climate change agreements that will provide better incentives to encourage energy efficiency;

plans to recycle landfill taxes to business; and

consultation on plans for tackling diffuse water pollution.