The UK’s Prime Minister, deputy Prime Minister and leader of the opposition have committed to working together to battle climate change.
The cross-party pledge commits the leaders to seek a strong global climate deal in Paris this year; limiting global temperature to a less than 2°C rise. The agreement also sees all three major party leaders commit to end the use of unabated coal in energy generation and accelerate the transition to a competitive low-carbon economy.
Reacting to the cross-party consensus on climate change and the signing of the pledge, former vice president of the US, Al Gore said: “This agreement represents inspiring leadership and true statesmanship by all three men. The political courage it represents on all sides is exactly what our world most needs in order to solve the climate crisis. Thank you! Thank you! And thank you!”
You can tell a lot about Mr. Cameron by the company he keeps.
And you can tell a lot too about his sense of self-importance by the priority he has attached to this. As I am not the first to observe, the U.K.’s share of global CO2 emissions was 1.47 percent in 2010 and I’d be surprised if it is very different today .
Somehow I think I can guess Nigel Farage’s response to all this:
“Thank you! Thank you! And thank you!”






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