The Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, hosted the RICS Wales Energy Briefing on 01 October. The event was used to launch the report entitled: The Climate Challenge - Your City, Your Responsibility.

The report outlines the extent of the measures needed to achieve government carbon reduction targets in the country. Examples include 19 solar panels per home in Swansea and 28% fewer cars on the road in Bangor.

Using scenario planning and statistical data sources, the report demonstrates the lengths three Welsh cities will need to go to in the areas of transport, energy supply and energy demands of the built environment to meet the 2012 60% carbon reduction target.

David Fell, Managing Director of Brooke Lyndhurst, who produced the report on behalf of RICS Wales commented:

"It is relatively easy to set a future target for carbon reduction but the difficulty comes in addressing how to practically achieve this. 2012 is only four years away and so actions need implementing as soon as possible.

"As is demonstrated by the scenario planning in this report, small steps will not be enough to reduce our carbon dependency in Wales and a number of large measures need to be taken to achieve results.

"Whilst some of the measures may seem extreme or impractical, this RICS report does not hide from the fact that it will take this level of commitment to reduce carbon by 60% across Wales."