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Nuclear
is too little, too late and too dangerous
In announcing the start of a new Energy Review today,
only two years after the last comprehensive review that
prioritised energy efficiency and renewable energy
against nuclear power, Tony Blair has signaled that he
has already decided to go for the nuclear option.
Tony
Blair - promises like piecrust
Tony
Blair has also signaled a shift away from legally binding
targets key to tackling climate change. Please e-mail
your MP to urge Tony Blair not to turn his back on
climate change. Visit our information
page to find out more.
Ask
your MP to urge Tony Blair not to undermine the Kyoto
Protocol or retreat from a target-based approach to
cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Tony
Blair signalled a fundamental shift away from legally
binding targets which are key to driving down greenhouse
gas emissions and tackling climate change. Energy
ministers are alarmed about the Prime Minister's change
of emphasis.
Dr Ashok Sinha, Director of Stop
Climate Chaos, said "Tony Blair’s recent remarks
on climate change are giving Kyoto’s opponents - in
particular President Bush - the ammunition to kill off
the Protocol. For a Prime Minister who has championed
climate change throughout his EU and G8 Presidencies
Tony Blair is now in real danger of undermining the most
important climate change agreement ever."
Without
legally binding targets, what will make governments take
the necessary steps to slash their emissions? And how
will we know whether we are on track to stop climate
change? We have a fast-shrinking window of
opportunity to act and targets are critical to the
global response that is needed.
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Climate
change is a global challenge and requires a global
solution
Greenhouse gas emissions have the same
impact on the atmosphere whether they originate in
Washington, London or Beijing. Consequently, action
by one country to reduce emissions will do little to
slow global warming unless other countries act as
well. Ultimately, an effective strategy will
require commitments and action by all the major emitting
countries.
The
international response to climate change was launched in
1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, with the
signing of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Convention established a long-term objective of
stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere "at a level that would prevent dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate
system". It also set a voluntary goal of reducing
emissions from developed countries to 1990 levels by
2000 - a goal that most countries did not meet.
Recognizing
that stronger action was needed, countries negotiated
the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol, which sets binding targets to reduce
emissions 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by
2012. The Protocol entered into force on February
16, 2005, which made the Protocol's emissions targets
binding legal commitments for those industrialized
countries that ratified it (the United States and
Australia have not ratified it). In addition, the
market-based mechanisms established under the Protocol,
including international emissions trading and the Clean
Development Mechanism, became fully operational with the
Protocol's entry into force.
Attention
now is turning to strengthening the international
framework for the years following the Kyoto Protocol's
initial commitment period (2008 - 2012). The overriding
challenge is to forge an agreement that includes all
major emitting countries - both developed and developing
- and begins signficant long-term reductions in global
emissions. In 2003, the Pew Center engaged more than 100
experts, policymakers, and stakeholders from nearly
three dozen countries to address this issue. This
initiative continues with the Climate
Dialogue at Pocantico, a series of off-line
discussions among 25 senior policymakers and
stakeholders from 15 countries exploring options for
next steps in the international climate
effort. The final
report of the Pocantico dialogue was released
on November 15, 2005.
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