Tony Blair speech / Gordon Brown speech

Tony Blair speech / Gordon Brown speech; - During the coming year, we must take major steps to agreeing the elements of this future framework / The German G8 in 2007 will be vital / This report will form the essential context for such discussion / And in Europe we must go further too / We should extend the EU Emissions Trading Scheme beyond 2012 and bring aviation into the heart of it - We should find ways to join this EU trading scheme up with others around the world including the one I helped launch with Governor Schwarzenegger and his Democrat colleagues in California a few weeks ago / We must agree new EU energy efficiency standards and launch a new initiative to make all new coal power stations carbon neutral - And at home we must do more too / Already we are on track to achieve double our Kyoto target, a record no other country in the world can match / But we must go further / We must implement the energy review to get on trajectory to our 2050 target / We must develop new measures to encourage individuals to take action - We are looking at carbon budgets and a climate change bill / I accept we should be bolder at home - it gives us international influence - but let's be honest, it is only international action that will really address the problem on the scale needed - Gordon will set in more detail the governments response to the Stern review but it is clear we must be bolder at home, in Europe and internationally / The Stern Review has done a crucial job / And I thank Nick and his team for all their hard work / It has demolished the last remaining argument for inaction in the face of climate change - We know it is happening / We know the consequences for the planet / We now know urgent action will prevent catastrophe and investment in preventing it, will pay us back many times over / Should we fail to rise to this challenge I don't believe we will be able to explain ourselves to future generations that we have let down / That is why this report is imp...