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"We support Tony Blair's effort in highlighting climate change," said Carbon-info.org's chairman Flemming Bermann. "But we are obviously concerned that the UK government is moving away from a target based approach and leaving it up to businesses to tackle climate change by developing new technologies without a time-table and structured framework.

Tony Blair said that the evidence of climate change is getting stronger and it is now widely accepted that there is concerns about energy security and supply. He continued by stating that he recognised many feared that limiting greenhouse gas emissions will also limit economic growth in the UK and globally.

Friends of the Earth Executive Director Tony Juniper said: "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."

Technology and science will provide part of the solution to global warming, Prime Minister Tony Blair said at the end of a climate change conference in London this week, apparently edging away from reliance on the binding framework and targets of the Kyoto Protocol.