The World in 2030

148 The World in 2030
The Government’s blueprint for tackling climate
change is published today (13 March 2007).
The draft Climate Change Bill, the first of its kind
in any country, and accompanying strategy, set out a
framework for moving the UK to a low-carbon economy.
It demonstrates the UK’s leadership as progress
continues towards establishing a post-Kyoto global
emissions agreement. 290
The Tyndall Centre produced a thoughtful response not
long after the draft bill was published. The analysts working
at the Centre criticised the bill for not covering aviation or
shipping and warned that instead of reducing the likelihood
of us suffering the worst effects of climate change, the
mistaken logic behind the proposals in the bill would
actually cause global warming to increase considerably more
than the target set by the IPCC.
Two months after the bill’s publication, Mike Childs,
Head of Campaigns for Friends of the Earth (and a consulting
referee on this section of this report) referred to the criticism
made of the bill by three parliamentary committees when
he said:
‘The Climate Change Bill must be strengthened.
This is the clear conclusion from this joint report by
members of the House of Commons and House of
Lords. Gordon Brown now has a golden opportunity
to demonstrate his green credentials. The Government
must listen; it must include international aviation
in the emissions reductions targets and it must set