David Miliband MP discusses the draft Climate Change Bill

[communitywork]

Huge profits made by London-based brokers who arrange emissions-cutting projects in developing countries contrast with little benefit for the world's poorest nations, company and United Nations data shows. The Kyoto Protocol on global warming allows rich countries to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by paying poor nations to cut

emissions on their behalf, using the so-called clean development mechanism (CDM).

[bbrewski]

the IPCC report has been sexed up more than iraq's dodgy dosier

[cashgashpieandmash]

Oi Milliband the majority of our carbon emissions come from our consumer habits when are you going to tackle the major contributing issue to climate change of globalisation. Putting solar panels on your roof doesn't make up for the fact that when you go to the shops most of the products have been manufacutured and transported from the other side of the world!

[johntherobot]

Labour; please please please further subsidise solar panneling and similar technologies - imagine a scenario where the economies of scale mean that solar panelling and the advanced photovoltaic cells are cheaper than tiling. This would be one of the greatest investments in climate change you could make, and should be taken more seriously than wave power and other energy generation methods

[jsf27]

Oh, David, you're adorable but this tie is out of control.

[trevnan]

Very big stick and very, very small carrot is what this government is doing. Not tax neutral to change behaviour. And by the way Dave buy a decent tie if your doing a webcast!

[TonyC1968]

Crawl back under your rock Milliband until you've got something sensible to say that doesn't cost the taxpayer another arm and leg. Global Warming my foot, tax tax tax seems more likely.

[zardarg]

Quite alot of waffle, no real enthusiasm towards alternative energy, all a bit general lets here how many more windfarms and how much invesment in tidal power and cars without petrol...Oh and get a new tie blaa...

[RiamuYabu]

I strongly believe that climate change is a natural cycle the Earth goes through (Not CO2 related).

Having said that, I do believe that we should conserve our natural resources until such time we need them.

I have one question that I would like David to answer for me: Why is import tax set so high on bio fuels?

Liam (aka Riamu)

[whu58]

I hate the way this government uses spin and the media to think human beings are responsible for climate change when the evidence does not support the case.

Human beings only emit less than 0.5% of CO2 into the atmosphere!

Climate change is a natural occurance that has been going on since the birth of this and other planets!

Don`t be conned by this rehtoric, its just another way of getting your taxes through lies and misinformation!

[comradesteele]

yeah, and 9/11 was an inside job.

[JasonVz]

Millimillimillibandit

Nice tie

[jburge011]

I agree with the icelandic point of view, if everyone puts their ideas forward, we could come up with something. Hydrogen energy is a really good idea and we should pursue it. we should ask the question are these changes going to have the impact we need? Or should we set something more challenging? Surely if the money is put in the right places you can nearly do everything. What about solar panels that are transparent like glass? That way all our windows would provide the electricity we need!

[gxhall]

Taxation Taxation Taxation

[PopularAlliance]

Low carbon can only be achieved through the hydrogen economy, take a look at Iceland with clean cheap energy, it needs the political will of a party such as the Popular Alliance who say the current carbon tax proposals by labour are another stealth tax while doing nothing to actually reduce the carbon emmisions

[hallidaydaniel]

Myself, I would be up for the country splashing some cash on modern neuclear power, so we can stop burning coal and emitting the inevitable CO2 like there is no tomorrow. What's more, new methods of powering cars etc. will not be 'zero carbon' unless the electricity we produce is carbon free. For instance, to produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars, it needs to be extracted from water, using electricity. If that electricity was produced by burning coal, we are not doing ourselves any favours!

[Bomber21288]

100%!!!

[calvinjones]

Aviation? Shipping?

Goal to stand a chance of avoiding >2 degrees ?

Commitment to do this here and lead a low carbon economy, not carry on and buy foreign credits?