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Posted by bex — 16 October 2008 at 6:28pm
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Has somebody put something in the water around Westminister? On Tuesday I found myself waxing lyrical about a new Tory announcement. Today it's Labour's turn. Frankly, I'm a little freaked out.
Ed Miliband - he who thousands of you congratulated when he got his new
job as climate change secretary - has announced a new
emissions reduction target for the UK. We will, he said, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, compared to 1990 figures.
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Commenting on the new emissions target announced today by Ed Miliband, Greenpeace chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
"This is a hugely encouraging first move from the new Climate Change secretary. In a decade in power Labour has never adopted a target so ambitious, far-reaching and internationally significant as this. To meet it will require determined action from Gordon Brown and every one of his successors for the next four decades, hard choices will be made that will touch every Briton, but it can and must be done."
He continued:
Posted by bex — 7 October 2008 at 11:12am
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The Independent Climate
Change Commission has warned
the government that it should cut all greenhouse emissions by 80 per cent by
2050 to tackle climate change.
In itself, this isn't
particularly surprising; scientists have been recommending this for some time.
More interesting - and very welcome - is that the commission wants to include
aviation and shipping in the target. That means, for once, that 'all greenhouse
gas emissions' pretty much means 'all greenhouse gas emissions'.
Posted by bex — 28 March 2006 at 9:00am
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A year late - the government announced the results of their review of climate change initiatives today and told us what we already knew. They are not going to meet their targets. But instead of taking this opportunity to put in place measures that would really make a difference to reduce climate damaging emissions, they've lowered their expectations.
