Brown offers (yet more) cheap words and vague promises on climate change


Gordon Brown had little that was truly new to bring to the table in his speech today on climate change. His most shiny offering was a ‘green hotline’ to advise people on what they can do to cut their impact on the environment. One has to wonder if the person on the other end of the phone might ever suggest a change of government as an answer.

The Prime Minister also increased the emissions target from a sixty per cent cut by 2050 to eighty per cent—a hopelessly, overwhelmingly inadequate response to last weekend’s UN report which gave us no more than 12 years to turn things round. Had Mr Brown instead kept to sixty per cent, but by 2015, that would have been impressive. But no. Eighty per cent only sounds good on paper and in speeches. It means nothing unless it is achieved, and there are far more reasons to doubt the PM than believe him given the government’s track record to date.

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Monday, November 19th, 2007

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