Summary
On taking the wraps off its long-awaited Climate Change Bill last month, the Government indicated a steely determination to combat global warming.
"With climate change, we can't just close our eyes and cross our fingers," said Environment Secretary David Miliband, binding the UK to a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.See the full content of this document
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Answer May Not Be Blowing in the Wind
"We need to step up our action to tackle it, building on our considerable progress so far."
Strong words on the thorny political issue on which every party is anxious to take the moral higher ground. When it comes to renewable energy, however, whether "considerable progress" has been made is a moot point.Prime Minister Tony Blair recently entered into a Europe-wide commitment to generate a fifth of its energy from green sources by 2020. Few people question the need for alternatives to fossil fuels. Increasingly expensive and diminishing in supply, power stations fuelled by oil, gas and coa...See the full content of this document
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