5 June 2007
The Prime Minister has outlined the Government’s ideas on how the UK should secure its energy and protect the environment.
In a foreword for the policy review paper Building on progress: Energy and environment, published today, Mr Blair called tackling climate change "the biggest challenge of our times".
A number of factors will prove critical in meeting that challenge, including developing new technologies and establishing an international framework for reducing carbon emissions, he said.
"Climate change is the greatest economic, environmental and humanitarian risk facing all of us. It will require the greatest of efforts from all parts of society if we are to avoid it. But we can be optimistic. It can be done, and this paper shows us how."
The Prime Minister also drew attention to the issue of securing energy supplies, with the UK set to import almost all its gas and more than half its oil by 2020. Details of the Government’s plans on how to tackle the energy issue were published in an Energy White Paper on 23 May.
- Download the full document - Building on progress: Energy and environment
- Go to our Energy section
- Go to our Climate Change section
- Read more about the policy review
World Environment Day
Publication of the policy review paper comes on World Environment day and immediately before the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
The UK hopes to use the summit and subsequent UN meetings in Bali, December, to press for a lasting agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
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