Gordon Brown is facing a tough parliamentary battle over the Government’s ground-breaking Climate Change Bill amid growing pressure to strengthen planned targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Campaigners said they were confident that more than 30 Labour MPs wanted to see tougher targets than the Government’s goal of cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, or action to include aviation and shipping in the legislation to impose legal targets for cutting CO2 levels.
Environmentalists say Britain needs to cut carbon emissions by at least 80 per cent by the middle of the century to prevent damaging climate change. Ministers have promised that an independent committee on global warming will review the target within two years.
But Conservatives said the work should be done within months to ensure the correct long-term emissions targets were included in the Bill. They will also demand that the Government set rolling annual targets for carbon reduction, saying proposals for a five-year target will not hold the Government to account.
Liberal Democrats want a national target of at least an 80 per cent cut.
[Source: Guardian Unlimited]
0 comments for this entry ↓
There are no comments yet for this entry.
Leave a Comment