[Friends of the Earth International is also critical of the high corporate profile at the summit.] Big business has got hold of the puppet strings behind the scenes, ... I think it's quite obvious whose PR is treated as most summit-friendly. |
At long last the Chancellor appears to be waking up to the enormous threat posed by climate change and is taking some steps to put us in a better position to act. |
Aviation is a rogue sector and its environmental impact is out of control. Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humanity and yet aviation policy is doing the opposite of what is needed. |
By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either. |
Climate change is the most urgent and serious challenge faced by the global community ? and we need leadership to adapt the global economy to deal with it, ... The Prime Minister?s move away from a target-based approach could have disastrous consequences. |
He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies. |
I fear this is another attempt to undermine Kyoto and a message to the developing world to buy US technology and not to worry about targets and timetables, |
It's a load of rubbish, |
It's a load of rubbish. You can see manufacturers using this as an argument for making more paper and recycling less. |
Many of us are extremely worried by the position of the European Union. The end date for talks should be set for 2008. |
Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous and expensive. We are only talking seriously about nuclear power again because of climate change. But it is not the answer. |
Some countries like the U.S. find it difficult to go through the UN process and make binding commitments. Blair is trying to make a neutral space where they can share ideas. That's fine as long as it doesn't replace Kyoto. |
The Department of Transport's own models on aviation growth show dramatic reductions in air travel when assumptions are added for fuel taxes and other factors, |
The government must set us on the path to a clean, safe and sustainable future and turn its back for once and for all on the failed, and dangerous and expensive experiment of nuclear power. |
the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. |