Well, I opened up the Herald today only to read that “Tony Blair is considering including a Climate Change Bill in next months QUeens Speech……If the Prime Minister were to create a Climate Change Bill, it would be a U-turn as he has appeared hitherto sceptical about one, believing it to be something of a political gesture. He would also accede to the demands of campaigners such as Friends of the Earth as well as David Cameron’s Conservatives and Sir Menzies Campbell’s Liberal Democrats.
It has been estimated that nearly 400 of the 646 MPs are currently in active support of a Climate Change Bill. In September, green groups wrote to Mr Blair pressing for legislation that would set targets for 3% annual cuts in greenhouse gases across the UK economy.
Last night, Peter Ainsworth, Shadow Environment Secretary, gave a warm welcome to Mr Miliband’s statement, describing it as “a real breakthrough, a potentially very exciting development”.
He said: “This looks as though we are on the verge of a serious breakthrough in terms of the seriousness with which we deal with climate change in this country and that’s good news for everyone.”
*Quote taken from Herald Newspaper @ www.theherald.co.uk/politics/72020.html*
I would like to encourage everyone to get involved in ‘encouraging’ Mr. Blair to include and back the bill.* It would be a significant step especially with environmental groups holding the ‘I Count’ event in Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 3rd November from 1-3pm, the ‘biggest climate change event gathering in the uk’. For more info see: www.wwf.org.uk/climatechange/icount.asp
If any of the Moose family fancy going, please inform me, you know where I am! Until then!
*You can email Tony through the ‘I-Count’ website to tell him you want to back the bill @ www.icount.org.uk/
In fairness to Tony Blair, he’s only ever said that global legislation wouldn’t work, rather than that legislation in Britain wouldn’t.
Yes, but up until now he hasn’t acknowledged that there is a major global warming issue, which meant there hasn’t been a need for an emissions bill, global or otherwise.