The UK became the first country with a major economy to set a deadline to become a carbon neutral economy with zero emissions of greenhouse gases.

Britain's target is 2050.

Scotland's is even earlier by 2045.

As Fred to Sam Lazaro reports, one industry is already trying to clean up its act,

one responsible for Scotland's best known export.

That's one of these.

In us?

Unless we're not.

Scotch whiskey is a $7 billion a year export, reaching the farthest corners of the world with

scores of well-known brands from white label to black label.

Distilled and blended in Scotland.

The marketing especially on more expensive labels evokes the pristine Scottish countryside

and its distinct whiskey regions.

Less well known is that whiskey making is a dirty business, producing as much carbon

dioxide as it does alcohol and using a lot of fossil fuels.

It is an energy intensive process. This is our still house.

Anna Pilkington is an engineer at the Glen Tockers Distillery in the Spaceide region

owned by the French multinational Perno Ricar with brands like

Shiva Regal and Glen Livet. Some 3,400 gallons of alcohol equal to about 13,000 1 liter bottles, are distilled each day after the barley is

mashed, washed, and then distilled in enormous copper stills before being poured into wooden

barrels to be aged.

We have many different shapes of stills and they will all produce a different character

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