A Future Beyond Oil

Drivers may face limits on the carbon they emit from their cars, which could affect the number of journeys they can make, said The Right Honourable David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, at a free public lecture at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. An option would see drivers buying and selling their carbon allowances, if the Government succeeds in persuading the EU to extend the emissions trading scheme to the roads. Motorists who emit too much carbon would have to buy pollution permits from greener drivers.

Miliband's lecture The Transition Economy - a future beyond oil. was the Dr S. T. Lee Public Policy Lecture at the Faculty of Law. He was introduced by the University's Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard. Aged 41, Mr Miliband is seen as one of the brightest of his generation of Labour MPs. He worked for Mr Blair's policy unit when the Labour Party was still in opposition and became head of Downing Street's policy unit after the 1997 election.

The S. T. Lee lectures were established in 2003 thanks to a benefaction from Seng Tee Lee, the business executive, philanthropist and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Each lecture considers aspects of scientific, medical or technological research and developments that are likely to have significant implications for public policy over the next decade.

This was the third lecture in the series. Previous lectures have been given by Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the government, and the Nobel laureate, Sir John Sulston.

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• Carbon Allowences
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[thegreeensky]

nice speech though.. well said :)

[grandamracer23]

wow WE THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO STAND UP TO OUR GOVERNMENT WEN NEEDED! THATS WHY GEORGE WASHINTON GAVE US THE 2ND ADMENDMENT TO USE WEN WE NEEDED TO FIGHT OUR GOVERNMENT AGAIN!! NOW IS THE TIME SPREAD THE WORD PREPARE TO FIGHT!! OUR GOVERNMENT HAS GONE TO FAR WITH BIENG PARANOID AND CONTROLLING!! WE MUST GET OUR RIGHTS AND COUNTRY BACK!! its the only way to survive in the future upcoming event........ we must be ready....

[freakshow1997]

Science and technology are ALONE in creating the future without fossil fuels. NOBODY else is doing anything at all, ESPECIALLY politics, which is exemplary in its inertia. The technology is there, we just need a price on CO2.

Although endearing, 10% reduction of an energy expenditure is not going to be relevant.

[princejmye]

I need find my history i from where and i need to see my history who is me

[idnumber101]

90% off this speach is political .......the other 10% is just un-understandable clap trap....thanks for starting with a personal story david.......darren brown move over.....

[idnumber101]

wow i bet the lies are easy to swollow when you have a real life famous political twat shitting them out at you in person......come on david tell these people the oil is runing out and we are not in an ecconomic posssition to compeat with china and other super sized nations......but if that fails tell the dumnb shits the world is ending....