Blair Boldly Calls For Another Climate Conference Next February - Guardian

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"Tony Blair has called a world scientific conference for next February to decide an upper limit on how much the temperature can rise before the world faces the "catastrophic consequences of climate change".

He said the idea was to put pressure on the US administration to take action and to include China and India in a programme of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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He said it was not some distant threat centuries ahead. "I mean in the lifetime of my children certainly; and possibly within my own." Even the Kyoto protocol, which the US has repudiated, was insufficient to address the problem of climate change and he would use the presidency of the G8, which he holds next year, to put pressure on the US to rejoin the process and go beyond Kyoto.

He announced that sustainable development would be incorporated to every one of the new schools in the current huge building programme. "It will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and generates its own power. Our students won't be just told about sustainable development, they will see and work within it: a living learning place in which to explore what a sustainable lifestyle means." And in another move to silence critics in the green movement that the prime minister's rhetoric is not matched by action, Mr Blair said building regulations would be changed to make new homes and offices more energy efficient."

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1304750,00.html

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1. I'll believe it when I see it

Blaire's in hot water there at home and will do all he can to cleanse himself of the stench of the dead in Iraq and the lice he picked up laying down with the Chimp.

If Bush gets in again Blaire's presidency of the G8 won't mean shit in terms of US policy and environmental controls.

This is a political bandaid IMO