Business Green: The government has today confirmed that greenhouse gas emissions for the UK fell nearly two per cent during 2008, far exceeding the targets set out under the Kyoto Protocol. According to official figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), emissions of the six greenhouse gases covered by Kyoto fell 1.9 per cent in 2008 to 628.3m tones of CO2 equivalent (CO2e). “Today’s greenhouse gas emissions statistics are encouraging and show a continued decline in …