Gordon Brown has launched a UN climate change fundraising group alongside the Ethiopian PM, and has criticised climate change sceptics. Photograph: AFP
Posted on 02/13/2010 9:38:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gordon Brown has launched a UN climate change fundraising group alongside the Ethiopian PM, and has criticised climate change sceptics. Photograph: AFP
Prime minister Gordon Brown today accused climate change sceptics of going "against the grain" of scientific evidence, as he launched a new group to raise billions of pounds for the fight against global warming.
Mr Brown will co-chair the United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing with Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi.
The group aims to raise $30bn (£19bn) over the next three years - rising to $100bn annually by 2020 – to help poor countries limit their contribution to global warming and adapt to its effects.
Cash raised from state and private sources will fund measures to halt deforestation, encourage low-carbon development and adapt to rising sea levels, extreme weather events and higher temperatures.
Despite the failure to reach a legally-binding compact at the Copenhagen talks in December, Mr Brown today said that he believed sufficient offers were on the table to meet some of the conference's key goals.
"66 countries have set out their plans or targets for climate change, covering 80% of global emissions," he said. "Already we can say that if promises are met, the accord will lead to a peaking of global emissions by or before 2020 and make it possible for us to hold the trajectory of global temperature increases to 2C."
Britain continues to support a legally-binding agreement at the UN conference in Cancun, Mexico, later this year, he said.
The weeks following Copenhagen have seen the science behind climate change come increasingly under attack, following the hacking of researchers' emails and the revelation......
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The UK parliamentary elections must occur by June 3, 2010. It is thought that they will be held on May 12, 2010, when local elections are already set to occur.
I find it interesting that leftist politicians physically resemble the animals where pork comes from.
UK and the USA are going to go down the path to ruin, hand-in-hand, while the rest of the civilized world wakes up to the fraud.
Meanwhile, China and India are having none of it and will end up our economic masters as a result.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown... obviously the UK is past due to have a Composite Minister instead. ;’)
Luckily nobody knows who Gorton Brown is.
I hope that the Conservatives smash Labour in the upcoming elections, in order to stop Brown’s march to green tyranny and dhimmitude.
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