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Press Release
Petition reminds Blair that global warming debate is heating up
2nd April 2006
By sending a successful petition to number 10, a UK environment organisation has reminded the Prime Minister about just how hot the global warming debate is getting in the UK.
With the UK set to miss its domestic 2010 carbon emission target with 3-5%, the petition, which urges the UK Government to do more to ensure that the domestic and Kyoto targets are achieved, could not have been submitted at a more appropriate time.
Established in June 2005, the on-line petition was created by Carbon-info.org and quickly attracted in excess of 120 signatures from the UK and abroad. In the open letter accompanying the petition, Tony Blair is urged to engage the UK population in the fight against global warming to ensure that UK emission targets are achieved.
A spokesman for the Government commented that £6 mill. was already allocated to the new Climate Change Communication Initiative, which was launched in 2006 and is managed by The Carbon Trust.
“Being our first campaign, we are pleased about the number of signatures we have achieved,” said Carbon-info’s campaign leader Paula Bermann.
Carbon-info‘s chairman Flemming Bermann added, “We are obviously happy about the Climate Change Communication Initiative, but £6 mill. is simply not enough. We are talking about changing our culture, the hardest thing of all to influence. The Government needs to commit to a long-term approach, not just another advertising campaign, which is forgotten in 6 months time.”
