The British embassy in Sofia is considering holding regular meetings with various Bulgarian ministries on ecological matters, it was revealed by the embassy's second Environmental Report, published on the embassy's website on October 28.

The report indicates that in the period April 2008 – March 2009, the UK embassy had reduced business air travel by 38 per cent, and had refrained from using service vehicles, thus saving 26 per cent in fuel consumption. The embassy has also reduced its usage of water resources by 26 per cent, and achieved a 13 per cent decrease in usage of electricity and heating.

With the document, the embassy outlines its 'continuous efforts' to reduce the environmental impact of the Embassy in line with the British Government’s strategic priority to promote a low carbon, high growth global economy.

"Our actions are not driven by a desire to be 'green' for the sake of it, but by self-interest: if we do not tackle the challenge of climate change now, future generations will pay a heavy price. This message is particularly important now, in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009," the report has said.

Such measures are undertaken by all British diplomatic missions around the world, as the United Kingdom is one of the leading countries in the global fight to tackle climate change. The United Kingdom has vowed that by 2050 it will achieve an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions as opposed to its carbon output in 1990, Dnevnik daily reported on October 28.