Earlier this year, ex-prime minister Tony Blair signed up to the EU target of 20 per cent of all European energy to come from renewable sources by 2020. New prime minister Gordon Brown is now likeky to be advised that the target is too expensive and difficult to meet. The UK government will hope that it will be able to work with ‘climate sceptic’ governments such as Poland and the Czech Republic in order to try and persuade German chancellor Angela Merkel to set lower binding targets, which are due to be agreed in December.
Blair had a habit of signing any document the EU put in front of him, often without thinking through the implications.
The Guardian newspaper is alarmed:
Labour’s plan to abandon renewable energy targets
Leaked documents detail strategy for climate change U-turn
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
Anthony says
October 24, 2007 at 8:24 amhmmm, if they were’nt spending money cleaning up their nuke industry they may not be in this predicament
Paul Biggs says
October 24, 2007 at 5:13 pm10% is a more realistic figure, but by 2020 is pushing it.
Louis Hissink says
October 25, 2007 at 8:48 pmNow why do the useful idiots not comment here.