Tony Blair speech / Gordon Brown speech

Tony Blair speech / Gordon Brown speech; - For government, it means environmental policy is economic policy, and that finance ministries, and indeed all ministries, must be environmental ministries / Above all, as Stern says, climate change is a global challenge that demands a global solution / Tony Blair said that Britain's greenhouse gas emissions are just 2 per cent of the global total / The truth is we must tackle climate change internationally, or we will not tackle it at all - Today I can say Britain will lead this global effort / Since earlier this year, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan has advised me on economic issues / And I am pleased that former American Vice-President, Al Gore, who has done so much globally to make the case for tackling climate change, will become an adviser on environmental issues - Under Tony Blair's leadership Britain was the first country to put the environment on our G8 Presidency agenda / And thanks to agreement with Germany, it will be on the G8 agenda next year too, as it will be on the International Monetary Fund Committee, which I chair, and the World Bank Development Committee / And Britain will lead by example / We are the only G7 country to have already met our Kyoto target / By 2010 we believe we will have met it almost twice over, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by more than 20 per cent - This is happening as a result of the Climate Change Levy introduced in 2001 and around 3,000 climate change agreements between business and government, which by 2010 will cut emissions by 6 million tonnes a year, one third of our total reductions / And, as I announced, in this year's Budget, from 2007 the Levy will be indexed (to inflation) to ensure its continuing incentive effect on energy efficiency and emissions reduction - Our energy review published this summer set out detailed measures to cut emissions by reducing demand, increasing efficiency, and securing supply of energy into the future, including ...